From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Mon Nov 1 20:00:34 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 oA1C0WY8022788 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:00:33 +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 oA152ePP017565; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4155394 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:20 -0500 Received: from relay01.cites.uiuc.edu (relay01.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.23]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA1C0Kns026969 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay01.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA1C0DUB002103 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8C45B405001E; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101101120013.8C45B405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:00:13 -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 670 ATHW40 PHFO 011200 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1200 UTC MON NOV 1 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1130 UTC NOVEMBER 1 2010 LOW CLOUD CEILINGS...SOME WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS...HAVE BEEN MAINLY AFFECTING WINDWARD AND MAUKA SECTIONS OF THE BIG ISLAND...MAUI...AND MOLOKAI AS OF BULLETIN TIME. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN EVIDENT OVER WINDWARD AND MAUKA AREAS OF OAHU AND KAUAI FROM TIME TO TIME...ON THE WEST-FACING SLOPES OF HALEAKALA IN EAST MAUI...AND IN COASTAL AND UPSLOPE PARTS OF KONA AND SOUTH KOHALA ON THE BIG ISLAND. SKIES HAVE BEEN CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY ELSEWHERE AROUND THE ISLAND CHAIN THIS EARLY MORNING. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MPH STATEWIDE. AN AREA OF BROKEN...OCCASIONALLY SCATTERED...SHOWERY LOW CLOUDS EXISTS JUST NORTH CLOCKWISE THROUGH EAST OF THE ISLANDS...AND IS HEADING TOWARD THE WEST ON THE WEAK TRADE FLOW. PLUME CLOUDS ARE PRODUCING LOW CEILINGS WEST OF THE BIG ISLAND AND SOUTH OF MAUI COUNTY. BROKEN LOW CLOUDINESS IS APPARENT WEST OF NIIHAU AS WELL. CONDITIONS ARE OTHERWISE CLEAR TO SCATTERED IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THE LEADING EDGE OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS WITH A FRONT IS ABOUT 500 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF KAUAI...AND HAS BEEN MOVING SOUTH NEAR 10 MPH OVER THE PAST SEVEN HOURS. THE LOW CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOUNDARY IS CURRENTLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30N157W TO 27.5N170W TO 26.5N180. IN THE UPPER AIR ABOVE 25 THOUSAND FEET...A LOW IS APPROXIMATELY 900 MILES WEST OF KAUAI AND HAS MOVED SLOWLY SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. THE FEATURE IS INDUCING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA FROM 22N TO 24N BETWEEN 172W AND 176.5W AS OF THIS WRITING. A SWATH OF HIGH CLOUDS IS EAST OF THE LOW...WITH MOST OF THE CIRRUS ELEMENTS LOCATED FROM 20N TO 27.5N BETWEEN 160W AND 170W. A STREAK OF HIGH CLOUDS IS MAKING ITS WAY EAST OF 160W FROM 25N TO 28N AS IT TOPS AN UPPER RIDGE WHOSE AXIS IS ALONG LATITUDE 161W. CONVECTION ALONG THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE FAR SOUTH OF HAWAII HAS STRENGTHENED SINCE LAST EVENING...THOUGH IT REMAINS UNORGANIZED. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FOUND FROM 07N TO 13.5N BETWEEN 141W AND 178E. SOME OF THE CELLS THAT HAVE BEEN FIRING ARE RISING TO OVER 50 THOUSAND FEET...MOST OF WHICH ARE LOCATED FROM 08N TO 11N BETWEEN 161W AND 179W. $$ 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.