From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Nov 4 13:27:41 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 oA45RdVA013078 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:27:40 +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 oA3MLcaY001368; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4208498 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:16 -0500 Received: from relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (relay09.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.86]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA45RC36021222 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oA45R6ve018221 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 07D68108B0002; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:04 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101104052706.07D68108B0002@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:27:04 -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 031 ATHW40 PHFO 040526 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC THU NOV 04 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC NOVEMBER 04 2010 A RAGGED FRONTAL CLOUD BAND CONTINUED TO MAKE ITS WAY DOWN THROUGH THE ISLAND CHAIN EARLY THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE CLOUD BAND STRETCHED THROUGH 30N 139W SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH THE ALENUIHAHA CHANNEL TO 19N 160W. WEST OF THE 160W LONGITUDE...THE CLOUD BAND BECAME MORE FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSE AS IT CONTINUED WEST TO THE DATELINE NEAR 19N LATITUDE. THE FRONTAL BAND WAS 150 TO 175 MILES WIDE NORTHEAST OF THE ISLANDS. WEST OF THE STATE...THE BAND WAS NARROWER WHERE IT REMAINED INTACT. OTHERWISE THE BAND WAS SPREADING OUT AND BECOMING INDISTINCT. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE BAND HAD JUST REACHED THE BIG ISLAND. THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE BAND WAS BACK IN THE KAUAI CHANNEL. OVER THE STATE...THE BAND WAS MOVING SOUTH AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF THE CLOUD BAND...THE BIG ISLAND WAS SEEING THE FEWEST CLOUDS AT 7 PM. OAHU AND THE MAUI COUNTY ISLANDS WERE CLOUDY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY. AND THOUGH THE BAND HAD CLEARED KAUAI...COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUD PATCHES WERE FLOWING SOUTH BEHIND THE FRONT TO KEEP THE NORTH HALF OF THE GARDEN ISLAND MOSTLY CLOUDY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW HOVERING NEAR 20N 180E. THE LOW HAD BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY. IT WAS GENERATING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN 170 MILES EAST OF ITS CENTER. IT WAS ALSO PRODUCING AN AREA OF MOSTLY BROKEN BUT THICK CIRRUS CLOUDS BETWEEN 165W AND THE DATELINE FROM 20N TO 24N. A FEW THIN STRANDS OF THE CIRRUS WERE TRYING TO DRIFT EASTWARD TOWARD THE ISLANDS BUT WERE STOPPING JUST SHORT OF 160W THIS EVENING. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.