From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Nov 3 02:20:31 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 oA2IKSrk020945 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 02:20:29 +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 oA250RuY021767; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4182790 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:17 -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 oA2IKGh8014541 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:16 -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 oA2IK92P000509 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5D431405001E; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101102182009.5D431405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:20:09 -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 559 ATHW40 PHFO 021820 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1830 UTC TUE NOV 02 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1800 UTC NOVEMBER 02 2010 A SOMEWHAT DIFFUSE FRONTAL CLOUD BAND WAS LINGERING 225 MILES NORTH OF KAUAI THIS MORNING. THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THIS 180 MILES WIDE BAND STRETCHED SOUTHWEST THROUGH NEAR 30N 150W TO 25N 160W TO 24N 170W. THE CLOUD BAND EXTENDED WEST BEYOND 170W IN AN EVEN MORE DIFFUSE STATE...SPREADING OUT TO OVER 400 MILES IN WIDTH AS IT REACHED THE DATELINE. THE CLOUD BAND WAS FAIRLY BENIGN...CONSISTING OF MOSTLY BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW AND MID LEVEL CLOUDS. HOWEVER...THE CLOUD BAND WAS MORE ACTIVE AND INTENSE NORTH OF 30N LATITUDE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ALONG THE CLOUD BAND BETWEEN 32N 148W AND 38N 143W. THAT PART OF THE BAND JUST NORTH OF KAUAI WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT JUST OVER 5 MILES AN HOUR. NEAR THE ISLANDS...RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED PATCHES OF SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS WERE COMMON IN MOST AREAS. BUT A LARGE CLUSTER OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS WAS NOTED JUST WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH POINT ON THE BIG ISLAND. AND A CLUSTER OF BROKEN TO SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS WAS CONTINUALLY FORMING...DISSIPATING AND REFORMING IN THE AREA JUST WEST THROUGH WEST-NORTHWEST OF KAUAI. THE LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS WERE MOSTLY DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH OR SOUTHWESTWARD. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT EXTENDING FROM 35N 152W TO NEAR 25N 156W. THE TROUGH WAS MOVING EAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW NEAR 20N 175W WAS MOVING WEST AT JUST UNDER 10 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER UPPER LOW NEAR 22N 140W WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD. THE UPPER LOW WEST OF THE STATE WAS GENERATING A LARGE AMOUNT OF CIRRUS CLOUDS GENERALLY BETWEEN 10N AND 23N FROM 160W TO 175W. ALSO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING BETWEEN 09N AND 14N FROM 162W AND THE DATELINE. A SMALL AMOUNT OF CIRRUS CLOUDS FROM THIS AREA WAS SPREADING EAST AND JUST REACHING THE ISLANDS. A NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ALIGNED SWATH OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN CIRRUS SAT JUST NORTHEAST OF MAUI. THIS SWATH WAS BEING GENERATED BY THE UPPER TROUGH TO OUR NORTH. AT 8 AM...SKIES WERE CLEAR OVER THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE ISLANDS. ONLY A TINY BIT OF LOW CLOUDS WERE SEEN HERE AND THERE. AND THE CIRRUS CLOUDS FLOWING HIGH ABOVE THE STATE WERE FAIRLY THIN AND NOT OBSCURING THE SUN MUCH AT ALL. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.