From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Nov 3 08:18:49 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 oA30Imm0018861 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:18:48 +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 oA152eHD017565; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4188552 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:35 -0500 Received: from relay06.cites.uiuc.edu (relay06.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.8]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA30IZfT023580 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay06.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA30ITGK015516 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0B50E405001E; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101103001829.0B50E405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:18:29 -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 641 ATHW40 PHFO 030018 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC WED NOV 03 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC NOVEMBER 03 2010 A DIFFUSE FRONTAL CLOUD BAND STRADDLED THE AREA JUST NORTH OF THE ISLANDS THIS AFTERNOON. THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THIS 75 TO 100 MILES WIDE CLOUD BAND STRETCHED THROUGH 30N 147W TO 28N 150W...PASSING 100 MILES NORTH OF KAUAI NEAR 24N 160W AND CONTINUING TO 22N 170W. THE BAND CONSISTED OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW TO MID LEVEL CLOUDS SOUTH OF 30N LATITUDE. THAT PART OF THE BAND JUST NORTH OF KAUAI WAS MOVING SOUTH NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR. BETWEEN 150W AND 170W THE BAND HAD SHRUNK SINCE THIS MORNING WHEN IT WAS ABOUT 180 MILES WIDE. WEST OF 170W LONGITUDE...THE CLOUD BAND WAS FALLING APART. THE ACTIVE PART OF THE FRONTAL BAND NORTHEAST OF THE STATE BEYOND 30N LATITUDE CONTAINED BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING MAINLY BETWEEN 30N 147W AND 36N 143W. SOUTH OF THE FRONT...ONLY A FEW PATCHES OF SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS WERE STREWN ABOUT THE AREA IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING THE STATE. AT 2 PM... BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS WERE GATHERED ALONG THE KAU AND KONA SLOPES OF THE BIG ISLAND. A FEW BROKEN LOW CLOUDS WERE NOTED OVER THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST SIDES OF OAHU...LANAI AND KAUAI AS WELL AS OVER SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST PARTS OF MAUI. THE REST OF THE STATE WAS MOSTLY SUNNY. THE LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE KAUAI END OF THE ISLAND CHAIN WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH. THOSE NEAR THE BIG ISLAND WERE DRIFTING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED AN UPPER LEVEL LOW NEAR 20N 176W MOVING WEST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS UPPER LOW WAS GENERATING A SWATH OF CIRRUS CLOUDS IN THE AREA MAINLY BETWEEN 160W AND 175W FROM 10N TO 22N LATITUDES. A FEW...THIN STRANDS OF CIRRUS WERE FLOWING EAST OUT OF THIS REGION OVER THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.