From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Dec 2 13:00:51 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 oB250oPa014433 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:00:50 +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 oB1KDtfS000834; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:27 -0600 (CST) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4587091 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:27 -0600 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 oB250QXR002376 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:26 -0600 (CST) 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 oB250Kh4011888 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:26 -0600 (CST) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4E6613FE0870; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:20 -0600 (CST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101202050020.4E6613FE0870@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:00:20 -0600 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 442 ATHW40 PHFO 020500 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0500 UTC THU DEC 02 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0430 UTC DECEMBER 02 2010 THIN HIGH CLOUDS HAVE BECOME BROKEN TO OCCASIONALLY SCATTERED OVER THE ISLAND CHAIN. MOST OF THE CLOUDINESS IS DEBRIS FROM CONVECTION OCCURRING WEST OF THE ISLANDS. SKIES ARE PREDOMINANTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY AT THE LOWER LEVELS ACROSS THE ALOHA STATE THIS EARLY EVENING. LOW CEILINGS...SOME WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS...ARE ONLY OCCURRING FROM TIME TO TIME IN WINDWARD AND MAUKA SECTIONS ON THE INDIVIDUAL ISLES. BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ALSO EXIST OVER THE LOWER MOUNTAIN SLOPES IN KONA ON THE BIG ISLAND AS OF BULLETIN TIME. LOW CLOUD MOVEMENT IS FROM THE EAST TO SLIGHTLY NORTH OF EAST BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH STATEWIDE...WITH SPEEDS INCREASING FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...CONDITIONS ARE GENERALLY CLEAR TO SCATTERED BELOW THE HIGHER CLOUDINESS. HOWEVER...FARTHER UPWIND FROM THE STATE...LOW CLOUDINESS BECOMES SCATTERED TO BROKEN AND IS MORE SHOWERY. THESE CLOUD ELEMENTS ARE AHEAD OF A FRONT...WHOSE LEADING EDGE IS CURRENTLY ALONG A LINE FROM 27.5N140W TO 23.5N150W TO A POINT ABOUT 200 MILES NORTH OF KAUAI TO 26N164W. THE SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE HEADING SOUTH TO SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH... THOUGH IT BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY WEST OF 158W. AN UPPER LOW HAS MOVED TO A POSITION AROUND 1350 MILES WEST OF KAUAI AND HAS PUSHED SLOWLY WEST OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW ARE LOCATED FROM 15N TO 26N BETWEEN 175W AND 178E. A BROADER AREA OF CONVECTION IS IN AN ARC TO THE NORTHEAST CLOCKWISE THROUGH SOUTH OF THE SYSTEM. MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY IS FOUND WITHIN 150 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 31N174W TO 28N167W TO 19N168W TO 13N167W TO 10N180. THE HIGH CLOUDINESS SWEEPING OVER THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS...AS MENTIONED IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH...IS BLOWOFF FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS FIRING IN THIS LARGE BAND OF CONVECTION. $$ 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.