From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Oct 27 08:33:47 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 o9R0Xj8n001174 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:33:46 +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 o9QHD1qD021767; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4072755 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:35 -0500 Received: from relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (relay08.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.9]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9R0XYq0019147 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9R0XSq9010498 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5BEAE4050024; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101027003328.5BEAE4050024@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:28 -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 517 ATHW40 PHFO 270033 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC WED OCT 27 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC OCTOBER 27 2010 BROKEN TO OVERCAST HIGH CLOUDS...CI...CONTINUE TO BLANKET THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS BUT IT IS NOW A BIT EASIER TO SEE LOWER LEVEL FEATURES ON WELL-ILLUMINATED VISIBLE IMAGERY. BASED ON RADAR... SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AND FROM WHAT CAN BE SEEN THROUGH THE CI... THERE IS A PRETTY TYPICAL TRADE-WIND CLOUD PATTERN BELOW THE CI. BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVER THE COAST AND LOWER SLOPES OF THE BIG ISLAND FROM UPOLU POINT TO VOLCANO AND FROM NAALEHU TO SOUTH POINT TO JUST ABOVE KAILUA-KONA. LOW CLOUDS ARE ISOLATED ABOVE ABOUT 5500 FT OF ELEVATION. SHOWERY BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVER WINDWARD AREAS OF THE ISLANDS FROM MAUI TO KAUAI AND BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ARE SPREADING LEEWARD OVER CENTRAL AREAS OF LANAI... MOLOKAI...OAHU AND KAUAI. LOW CLOUDS ARE SCATTERED OVER NIIHAU. THE LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS ARE MOSTLY SHOWERY CUMULUS CLOUDS. RADARS SHOW SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS MODERATE SHOWERS OVER WINDWARD AREAS FROM MAUI TO KAUAI. LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ARE MOVING FROM SLIGHTLY NORTH OF EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. SCATTERED TO BROKEN SHOWERY LOW CLOUDS EXTEND SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES UPSTREAM OF THE ISLANDS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WHICH SHOWS FEATURES MAINLY ABOVE 24000 FT... SHOWS A LOW ALOFT 360 MILES WEST OF KAUAI AT 23N165W. OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS THE LOW HAS MOVED NORTHWEST SLOWLY. A 500 MILE WIDE AREA OF BROKEN CI ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW IS EAST OF A LINE FROM 12N165W TO 14N160W TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND TO 25N163W. OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS THE CI AREA HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY AND THE CI HAS THINNED. A 300 MILE WIDE BAND OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS AND SCATTERED EMBEDDED CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS IS WEST OF A LINE FROM 30N175W TO 25N175W TO 20N177W. THIS BAND...ASSOCIATED WITH A FRONT...HAS MOVED WEST SLOWLY OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS. CB TOPS EXTEND UP TO 44000 FT. $$ 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.