From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Oct 27 13:37:17 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 o9R5bGqX003577 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:37:16 +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 o9R3WWCg021767; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4077737 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:44 -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 o9R5aiqK012013 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:44 -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 o9R5abnh018077 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 484F24050023; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:37 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101027053637.484F24050023@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:36:37 -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 992 ATHW40 PHFO 270536 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC WED OCT 27 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC OCTOBER 27 2010 THE TRAILING END OF A SCATTERED HIGH CLOUD BAND COVERS THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS THIS EVENING. THESE CLOUDS ARE TRAVELING NORTH AT 15 MPH AND ARE RESULTING FROM A WESTWARD MOVING UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED AT 23N166W. THE CLOUDS RANGE IN DEPTH FROM 20 KFT TO 33 KFT AND COVER AN AREA FROM 18N TO 27N AND 150W TO 163W. BASED ON RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS...A STRONG TRADE-WIND SHOWER REGIME IS GOING ON OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. RADAR IS TRACKING SCATTERED SHOWERS MOVING MOSTLY OVER WINDWARD AND MAUKA PORTIONS OF THE ISLANDS...WITH SOME OF THEM CARRYING OVER TO LEEWARD. THE LOW CLOUDS ARE A BIT OBSCURED ON IR THIS EVENING...BUT FROM WHAT CAN BE INTERPRETED FROM THE LAST VISIBLE IMAGES TODAY BEFORE SUNSET IS BROKEN TO OVERCAST SHOWERY CUMULUS CLOUD BUILD UPS OVER THE WINDWARD AND MOUNTAIN AREAS WITH A SLIGHT BIT OF BREAK UP OVER LEEWARD PORTIONS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS. THE BIG ISLAND HAS CLOUDS ACROSS THE LOWER SLOPES FROM FROM UPOLU POINT TO VOLCANO AND FROM NAALEHU TO SOUTH POINT TO JUST NORTH OF KAILUA-KONA. OVER WINDWARD COASTAL AND OFFSHORE WATERS...BROKEN CUMULUS CLOUDS ARE TRACKING WESTWARD TOWARDS THE ISLANDS FROM UPSTREAM AT 20 TO 25 MPH. MOST OF THESE CLOUDS ARE BETWEEN 20N TO 28N AND EXTEND FAR BACK INTO THE EASTERN CENTRAL PACIFIC. ELSEWHERE...ANOTHER UPPER LOW IS CENTERED AT 30N177E AND IS TRAVELING WESTWARD OUT OF THE AREA. DENSE LAYERED CLOUDS LINE TH EASTERN FLANK OF THIS LOW AND EXTEND ACROSS THE 180 LINE. THESE CLOUDS ARE BOUNDED BETWEEN 13N TO 34N AND 175W TO 175E. FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII...IN THE ITCZ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS RUN BETWEEN 05N TO 11N AND 147W TO 178W. STORM TOPS REACH 52 KFT IN HEIGHT. $$ FOSTER +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.