From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Tue Oct 19 08:25:40 2010 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by cozumel.ust.hk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9J0Pcq9026797 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:25:39 +0800 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9IMbc1g022864; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3944124 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:20 -0500 Received: from relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (relay02.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.4]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9J0PKCu007841 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9J0PDP4010253 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 62D8D108B0002; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101019002513.62D8D108B0002@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:25:13 -0500 Reply-To: wxmaster@COX.NET Sender: WX-TROPL Tropical Storm and Hurricane WX products From: LDM Weather Subject: Central Pacific: Satellite Interpretation Message To: WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Precedence: list 495 ATHW40 PHFO 190025 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC TUE OCT 19 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC OCTOBER 19 2010 CLOUD COVER HAS INCREASED CONSIDERABLY OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SINCE LATE LAST NIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII. OVERCAST CLOUDS COVER MOST OF THE BIG ISLAND. THESE CLOUDS EXTEND UPSLOPE ALMOST TO THE SUMMITS OF MAUNA KEA AND MAUNA LOA. CLOUDS REMAIN SCATTERED OVER THE SUMMITS OF THE TWO BIG VOLCANOES AND NEAR CAPE KUMUKAHI...NEAR SOUTH POINT AND ALONG THE COAST AND LOWER SLOPES FROM KIHOLO TO UPOLU POINT. BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS ALSO COVER MOST OF EAST MAUI WITH SCATTERED CLOUDS ALONG THE COAST. CLOUDS REMAIN SCATTERED OVER MOST AREAS OF THE ISLANDS FROM CENTRAL MAUI TO NIIHAU BUT THERE ARE PATCHY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS OVER MAUKA AREAS OF WEST MAUI...LANAI...MOLOKAI AND OAHU...AND OVER THE WEST SLOPES OF KAUAI AND NIIHAU. CLOUDS ARE VERY ISOLATED OVER WATER AROUND THE ISLANDS. LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS ARE MOVING FROM SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF EAST AT 10 MPH. AN AREA OF SHOWERY BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS AND EMBEDDED CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS...CB...IS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 23N140W TO 26N144W TO 125 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND TO 14N160W. THE CLOSEST CB ARE ABOUT 220 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND. THIS CLOUD AREA HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AT 10 MPH. A FRONTAL CLOUD BAND LINES NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 36N150W TO 32N160W TO 30.5N170W TO 31N180W. THE FRONTAL BAND IS 150 MILES WIDE AND CONTAINS SHOWERY OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS AND SCATTERED TOWERING CUMULUS CLOUDS..TCU. THE PART OF THE BAND BETWEEN 160W AND 170W HAS MOVED SOUTH SLOWLY SINCE THIS MORNING WHILE THE PART WEST OF 170W HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY. A PREFRONTAL CONVERGENCE BAND IS CENTERED FROM 32N155W...WHERE IT MERGES WITH THE FRONTAL BAND...TO 27N170W. THE PART OF THE BAND EAST OF 165W IS 150 MILES WIDE AND CONTAINS DEEP OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS AND ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS...CB...WITH TOPS TO 35000 FT. THE PART OF THE BAND WEST OF 165W CONTAINS SHOWERY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS. THE PART OF THE CONVERGENCE BAND NORTH OF THE ISLANDS HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WHICH SHOWS FEATURES MAINLY ABOVE 24000 FT... SHOWS A TROUGH ALOFT FROM 30N145W TO JUST NORTHWEST OF KAUAI TO 20N180W. THE TROUGH HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH OVER THE PAST 12 HOURS. $$ DONALDSON +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from WX-TROPL send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU with "unsub wx-tropl" in the body of your message. For help with WX-TROPL write to cnovy@cox.net. For more information on tropical weather products, see the NHC Homepage at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.