From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Oct 21 13:12:20 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 o9L5CJBE007537 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:12:20 +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 o9L3D4AU014749; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3977670 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:57 -0500 Received: from relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (relay10.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.10]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9L5BvmR027260 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9L5BoNO008635 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id DC081108B0002; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:49 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101021051149.DC081108B0002@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:49 -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 125 ATHW40 PHFO 210511 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC THU OCT 21 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC OCTOBER 21 2010 SINCE MID-AFTERNOON CLOUD COVER HAS DECREASED OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND CLOUD TOPS HAVE WARMED NEAR THE BIG ISLAND. BROKEN TO OVERCAST HIGH...CIRRUS...CLOUDS COVER THE CENTRAL PART OF THE BIG ISLAND OBSCURING LOWER LEVEL FEATURES. THE CIRRUS CLOUDS ARE THE TOPS OF CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS THAT HAVE COLLAPSED OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. PATCHY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS COVER MOST OF THE PARTS OF THE BIG ISLAND NOT OBSCURED BY THE CIRRUS BUT CLOUDS ARE ISOLATED NEAR CAPE KUMUKAHI AND ALONG THE LEEWARD COAST. RADARS SHOW LITTLE PRECIPITATION REMAINING ON THE BIG ISLAND...ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS ALONG THE WINDWARD COAST. THERE ARE PATCHY SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS OVER THE SMALLER ISLANDS. RADARS SHOW LITTLE PRECIPITATION AROUND THE SMALLER ISLANDS EITHER...ONLY ISOLATED LIGHT SHOWERS ALONG THE WINDWARD MAUI COAST FROM HANA TO PAUWELA. SOME BROKEN LOW CLOUDS THAT DEVELOPED OVER THE ISLANDS DURING THE AFTERNOON HAVE SPREAD OFFSHORE TO THE WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND... MAUI...AND OAHU. OTHERWISE THERE ARE VERY FEW LOW CLOUDS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. A BAND OF SHOWERY BROKEN LOW CLOUDS...THE REMNANT OF A FRONTAL BAND...IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 28N144W TO 25N154W...360 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND...TO 25N160W...200 MILES NORTH OF KAUAI...TO 23N165W...TO 27N169.5W. THE BAND HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WHICH SHOWS FEATURES MAINLY ABOVE 24000 FT... SHOWS A TROUGH ALOFT FROM 28N140W...TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND...TO A LOW ALOFT NEAR 14N178W. THE PART OF THE TROUGH ALONG 30N HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH...WHILE THE PART NEAR THE ISLANDS HAS BEEN MOVING SOUTHEAST SLOWLY. A JET STREAM ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH RUNS FROM 14N180W TO 13N176W TO 17N165W TO 17N165W...150 MILES SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND...TO 25N140W. THERE ARE BROKEN TO OVERCAST CIRRUS CLOUDS SOUTHEAST OF THE JET. THERE IS ALSO AN AREA OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN CIRRUS FROM 23N TO 27N BETWEEN 152W AND 165W. $$ 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.