From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Dec 4 13:30:34 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 oB45UWdG031676 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 13:30:33 +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 oB3KrSRF024836; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:13 -0600 (CST) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4618452 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:13 -0600 Received: from relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (relay10.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.10]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oB45UDGX023700 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oB45U6iB004305 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:12 -0600 (CST) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7BB393FE0891; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:06 -0600 (CST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101204053006.7BB393FE0891@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:30:06 -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 268 ATHW40 PHFO 040529 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC SAT DEC 04 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC DECEMBER 04 2010 THE TAIL END OF AN OLD FRONTAL REMNANT WAS LINGERING SOUTH OF THE ISLANDS THIS FRIDAY EVENING. THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE DECAYING CLOUD BAND EXTENDED FROM 21N 140W TO 18N 155W. THE WEST END OF THE BAND WAS 80 MILES SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND. THE EAST AND WEST ENDS OF THE BAND WERE ABOUT 100 MILES WIDE WITH THE WIDER...CENTRAL PART OF THE BAND BEING ABOUT 170 MILES WIDE. THE FRONTAL REMNANT HAD BECOME DETACHED FROM THE MAIN EXTENDING FROM 20N 135W THROUGH 30N 125W. THE FRONT CONTINUED NORTH TO A LOW PRESSURE CENTER NEAR 34N 128W. THE CLOUD BAND SOUTH OF THE STATE WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY TOWARD THE WEST-SOUTHWEST. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED A COUPLE OF UPPER LOWS FAR WEST OF THE STATE. ONE WAS IN THE VICINITY OF 21N 179W AND THE OTHER WAS ACROSS THE DATELINE NEAR 28N 172E. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TOPS UP TO 47000 WERE FORMING IN THE AREA FROM 17N TO 30N BETWEEN 174W AND 178E. A FEW...SPARSE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED CLOSER TO THE ISLANDS FROM 18N TO 29N BETWEEN 165W AND 169W. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT-WAVE TROUGH EXTENDED ROUGHLY FROM 26N152W TO 26N158W. THIS SHORT-WAVE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. THE TAIL END OF A MORE SIGNIFICANT UPPER TROUGH NORTHEAST OF THE STATE EXTENDED THROUGH 27N 140W TO 27N 148W. THIS TROUGH WAS MOVING SOUTH AT JUST OVER 20 MILES AN HOUR. A SWATH OF MOSTLY BROKEN CIRRUS CLOUDS WAS PASSING JUST NORTHEAST OF THE STATE. IT WAS FLOWING EASTWARD AND JUST MISSING THE ISLANDS. THE ROUGHLY 210 MILES WIDE SWATH WAS CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 23N 141W TO 22N 155W. PATCHES AND SMALL CLUSTERS OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS WERE LOCATED EAST AND NORTH OF THE ISLAND CHAIN. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES PREVAILED WITHIN 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE ISLANDS AT 7 PM EXCEPT FOR A LOW CLOUD PLUME FLOWING OFF THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE BIG ISLAND. ELSEWHERE...ITCZ THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH WERE MAINLY FORMING BETWEEN 07N AND 11N FROM 163W TO 173W. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.