From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 30 13:01:46 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 o9U51jIt031403 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:01:45 +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 o9U0J4nT000583; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:01:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4126883 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:01:20 -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 o9U50Lr2027091 for ; Sat, 30 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 o9U50FUh015614 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 2C4024050021; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101030050015.2C4024050021@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:15 -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 069 ATHW40 PHFO 300500 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0500 UTC SAT OCT 30 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0430 UTC OCTOBER 30 2010 SHOWERY LOW CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH AN OLD FRONT CONTINUE TO PUSH THROUGH THE ISLAND CHAIN THIS EARLY EVENING. CEILINGS ARE CONCENTRATED OVER WINDWARD...MAUKA...AND UPSLOPE AREAS ON EACH ISLE...THOUGH LEEWARD SECTIONS OF THE SMALLER ISLES AND WEST MAUI ARE ALSO SEEING OCCASIONAL BROKEN LOW CLOUDS. LOW CLOUDINESS WITH THE OLD FRONT HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEGUN TO AFFECT THE BIG ISLAND...SO THE WINDWARD PORTION OF THAT ISLE IS SEEING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SHOWERS FOR THE MOMENT. ADDITIONALLY...BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS ARE EVIDENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN SLOPES IN KAU...KONA...AND SOUTH KOHALA ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII...AND THE WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI. LOW CLOUD MOTION IS FROM THE EAST-NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH ACROSS THE ALOHA STATE. IMMEDIATELY NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH EAST OF THE ISLANDS ARE BROKEN SHOWERY LOW CLOUDS...INCLUDING THE KAUAI CHANNEL. CONDITIONS ARE SCATTERED TO BROKEN IN THE OTHER CHANNELS. MORE LOW CEILINGS EXIST SOUTHEAST CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF KAUAI...AND OCCASIONALLY SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF OAHU...SOUTHWEST OF MAUI COUNTY...AND WEST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE BIG ISLAND. SKIES ARE PARTLY CLOUDY WEST OF KAUAI...AND SOUTH OF MAUI COUNTY AND THE BIG ISLAND AS OF BULLETIN TIME. AN ELONGATED...EAST-TO-WEST ORIENTED...UPPER TROUGH IS WEST OF THE STATE. THE AXIS OF THE SYSTEM IS ALONG A LINE FROM 25N161W TO 22N170W TO 21N180. UPPER LOWS HAVE BEEN FORMING FROM TIME TO TIME ALONG THE TROUGH AXIS AS THE FEATURE AS A WHOLE MOVES SLOWLY WEST. THE TROUGH HAS RECENTLY BEEN INDUCING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS... MAINLY FROM 21N TO 23N BETWEEN 166W AND 173W...AND FROM 18N TO 20N BETWEEN 170W AND 178W. SOUTH OF THE TROUGH...HIGH CLOUDS HAVE BEEN FLOWING TOWARD THE EAST. SOME OF THE CIRRUS ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN STREAKING BY SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND TO POINTS FARTHER EAST. UNORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII. MOST OF THE CONVECTION HAS BEEN OCCURRING FROM 08N TO 10N BETWEEN 141W AND 152W...AND FROM 07N TO 12N WEST OF 160W. $$ 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.