From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Oct 30 20:00:42 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 o9UC0ejW021431 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:00:41 +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 o9TIOXi3021767; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4129557 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:26 -0500 Received: from relay04.cites.uiuc.edu (relay04.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.5]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9UC0QGn023409 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay04.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9UC0JoN023354 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7EE104050021; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101030120019.7EE104050021@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:00:18 -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 362 ATHW40 PHFO 301200 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1200 UTC SAT OCT 30 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1130 UTC OCTOBER 30 2010 AS WAS THE CASE LAST EVENING...LOW CEILINGS AND SHOWERS ARE FAVORING WINDWARD AND MAUKA SECTIONS ON THE INDIVIDUAL ISLES. AND AS WAS THE CASE EARLIER...BROKEN SHOWERY LOW CLOUDS ARE OCCASIONALLY AFFECTING LEEWARD PORTIONS OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS AND WEST MAUI. LOW CLOUDS ARE ALSO PREVALENT OVER THE WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI...AND COASTAL AND UPSLOPE AREAS OF KONA ON THE BIG ISLAND. ON THE OTHER HAND...LANAI APPEARS TO BE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY AS OF THIS WRITING. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST-NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH STATEWIDE. LOW CLOUDS...SOME WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS...ARE BROKEN NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH EAST OF MAUI COUNTY...NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND...AND SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF KAUAI. TOO...LOW CEILINGS ARE OCCURRING FROM TIME TO TIME WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND...SOUTHWEST OF MAUI COUNTY...AND SOUTH OF OAHU. CONDITIONS ARE SCATTERED WEST AND NORTH OF KAUAI...AND NORTH OF OAHU. ALOFT ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...THE AXIS OF AN ELONGATED...EAST-TO- WEST ORIENTED...TROUGH IS WEST OF THE ISLANDS AND CURRENTLY ALONG A LINE FROM 24N160W TO 22N170W TO 21N180. LOWS ARE FORMING OCCASIONALLY ALONG THE TROUGH AXIS AND MOVING WEST NEAR 10 MPH... WHILE THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE APPEARS TO BE DRIFTING WEST SLOWLY. THE TROUGH IS HELPING TO IGNITE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...MOST RECENTLY FROM 20.5N TO 22N BETWEEN 166W AND 175W...AND FROM 17N TO 20N BETWEEN 172W AND 179E. HIGH CLOUDS ARE PASSING SOUTH OF THE TROUGH...AND ELEMENTS HAVE REACHED FAR TO THE EAST AND HAVE BEEN SWEEPING SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND. UNORGANIZED CONVECTION HAS BEEN FIRING FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND BECOME MORE SPORADIC OVER THE PAST SEVEN HOURS...AND ARE LOCATED FROM 07N TO 10N BETWEEN 144W AND 157W...AND FROM 08N TO 12N WEST OF 162W. $$ 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.