From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Oct 21 20:26:30 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 o9LCQT5K011120 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:26:30 +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 o9L3D4Ir014749; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3979941 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:43 -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 o9LCPhiU027732 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:43 -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 o9LCPaTo008085 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id CEE26405042A; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101021122536.CEE26405042A@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:25:36 -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 044 ATHW40 PHFO 211225 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1230 UTC THU OCT 21 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1200 UTC OCTOBER 21 2010 SINCE LAST EVENING CLOUD COVER HAS DECREASED OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS WHILE CLOUDS HAVE INCREASED OVER WATER AROUND THE ISLANDS. CLOUDS ARE ISOLATED OVER MOST AREAS OF THE ISLANDS FROM NIIHAU TO MAUI BUT THERE ARE BROKEN LOW CLOUDS OVER THE WINDWARD COAST AND KOOLAU MOUNTAINS OF OAHU AND THERE ARE SMALL BROKEN PATCHES OVER WINDWARD MAUI. A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERY BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS RUNS FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF HILO...OVER HILO...TO APUA POINT. THERE ARE ALSO SHOWERY BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS ALONG THE COAST AND LOWER SLOPES FROM MILOLII TO KAWAIHAE. RADARS SHOW SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS OVER WINDWARD OAHU AND THE WINDWARD SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND AND SCATTERED MODERATE SHOWERS OVER LEEWARD KOHALA. LOW CLOUDS OFF THE WINDWARD COASTS OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ARE MOVING FROM SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF EAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. CLOUDS ARE ISOLATED UPSTREAM OF THE ISLANDS EXCEPT FOR A 20 MILE DIAMETER PATCH OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS JUST OFF THE WINDWARD COAST OF OAHU. AN AREA OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS EXTENDS 50 MILES WEST NORTHWEST FROM THE LEEWARD COAST OF THE BIG ISLAND. AN OLD FRONTAL NORTH OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HAS FRAGMENTED. ONE 220 MILE WIDE AREA OF OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 26.5N144W TO 26N150W...A 260 MILE WIDE AREA OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25.5N152.5W TO 25.5N160W...AND A 250 MILE WIDE AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 25N166W TO 25N170W. THESE CLOUD AREAS ARE NEARLY STATIONARY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WHICH SHOWS FEATURES MAINLY ABOVE 24000 FT... SHOWS A TROUGH ALOFT FROM 26N140W...TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND...TO 17N180W. THE PART OF THE TROUGH NEAR 140W HAS BEEN MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...WHILE THE PART NEAR THE ISLANDS HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY. A JET STREAM ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH RUNS FROM 13N180W TO 19N165W TO JUST SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND TO 24N140W. THERE ARE BROKEN TO OVERCAST CIRRUS CLOUDS SOUTHEAST OF THE JET. $$ 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.