From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Mon Oct 25 02:27:17 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 o9OIRGxg018994 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:27:17 +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 o9OBCYb5021767; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:27:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4024662 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:27:02 -0500 Received: from relay05.cites.uiuc.edu (relay05.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.40]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9OIR1r3028557 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:27:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay05.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9OIQtUA007300 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:27:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 09E9E405001E; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:26:54 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101024182655.09E9E405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:26:54 -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 261 ATHW40 PHFO 241826 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1830 UTC SUN OCT 24 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1800 UTC OCTOBER 24 2010 LOW CLOUDS WERE SCATTERED TO BROKEN OVER EAST FACING MOUNTAIN SLOPES OF KAUAI...THE LENGTH OF THE KOOLAU MOUNTAINS,,,THE SEA CLIFFS OF MOLOKAI...THE EASTERN HALF OF THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS...AND ALONG THE COAST FROM HANA SOUTHWARD. THE REST OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS HAD CLEAR SKIES. THE BIG ISLAND HAD THREE SPOTS WITH BROKEN CLOUDS...ALONG THE KONA COAST NEAR MILOLII...THE WINDWARD KOHALA MOUNTAINS...AND THE HILO AND PUNA DISTRICTS. THE REST OF THE ISLAND SAT UNDER CLEAR SKIES. CLOUDS NORTH AND EAST OF THE ISLANDS WERE GATHERED INTO CLUSTERS SEPARATED BY CLEAR SKIES. THE CLUSTERS WERE EAST-NORTHEAST OF KAUAI...NORTH OF OAHU...NORTH OF MAUI...NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND. SOME OF THE CLOUDS APPEARED TO BE DEPOSITING ISOLATED SHOWERS. SKIES SOUTH AND WEST OF THE ISLANDS HAD A TOTALLY DIFFERENT APPEARANCE. INSTEAD OF CLUSTERS...BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS WERE ORGANIZED ALONG WIGGLY LINES. THE MOST NOTICEABLE LINES EXTENDED WEST OF THE SOUTH KONA COAST AND SOUTHWEST OF MAKENA MAUI. A MIX OF CLEAR SKIES AND SCATTERED CLOUDS WERE OBSERVED ELSEWHERE WITHIN 80 MILES SOUTH AND WEST OF THE ISLANDS. THE LOW CLOUDS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH...WITH SPEEDS DECREASING MOVING FROM EAST TO WEST UP THE CHAIN. CLOUD TOPS RANGED FROM 5 TO 6 THOUSAND FEET. ALOFT ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...A WEAK LOW WAS CENTERED ABOUT 250 MILES SOUTH OF HONOLULU NEAR 18N157W AND WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. THE LOW WAS SETTING OFF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN 120 MILES EAST AND WEST OF 13N158W. A SMALL CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO EVIDENT NEAR 16.5N 163.5W...OR 500 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HONOLULU. ADDITIONALLY...HIGH CLOUDS WERE STREAKING NORTH AND NORTHEAST IN THE AREA EAST CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE LOW. THE UPPER LOW HAD NO NOTICEABLE EFFECT ON THE LOW CLOUDS AROUND THE ISLANDS. UNORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE IN AN AREA FROM 05N TO 10N BETWEEN 140W AND 180W. THE TALLEST THUNDERSTORMS WITH TOPS ABOVE 50 THOUSAND FEET WERE LOCATED WEST OF 155W. $$ CRAIG +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.