From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 23 13:01:50 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 o9N51nri029799 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:01:50 +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 o9N3Qakh000583; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:01:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4005895 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:41 -0500 Received: from relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (relay07.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.73]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9N50KPO020364 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay07.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9N50EYC005426 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5F0F6108B0002; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:14 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101023050014.5F0F6108B0002@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:14 -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 840 ATHW40 PHFO 230500 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0500 UTC SAT OCT 23 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0430 UTC OCTOBER 23 2010 CONVECTIVE LOW CLOUDS HAVE BEEN DISSIPATING IN THE ALOHA STATE OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS. AS OF BULLETIN TIME...HOWEVER...LOW CEILINGS... SOME WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS...STILL REMAIN OVER THE WESTERN AREAS OF KAUAI AND OAHU...THE WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI... AND COASTAL AND UPSLOPE SECTIONS OF KAU...KONA...AND SOUTH KOHALA ON THE BIG ISLAND. LOW CLOUD MOTION IS FROM THE EAST NEAR 10 MPH ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. EXCEPT FOR SMALL AREAS OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDINESS NORTHWEST OF NIIHAU...NORTH OF KAUAI...WEST OF OAHU...AND WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF THE BIG ISLAND...SKIES ARE NEARLY CLEAR OVER THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE FAR SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS IS INDUCING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IS OCCURRING FROM 10N TO 19N WEST OF 170W. A WEAK JET STREAM PASSING SOUTH OF HAWAII IS GENERATING HIGH CLOUDINESS...AND CARRYING SOME OF THE HIGH-CLOUD DEBRIS FROM THE CONVECTION FAR SOUTHWEST OF THE STATE AS WELL. MOST OF THESE CLOUDS EXIST FROM 13N TO 17.5N BETWEEN 150W AND 174W. UNORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF THE ISLANDS. MOST OF THE CONVECTION IS LOCATED FROM 07N TO 10N BETWEEN 131W AND 168W. $$ KINEL +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.