From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Fri Dec 10 08:25:38 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 oBA0Pbww019337 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:25:38 +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 oB960iBq027712; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:19 -0600 (CST) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4706121 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:19 -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 oBA0PIav011904 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:18 -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 oBA0PC46015171 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:18 -0600 (CST) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5CCF63FE0853; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:12 -0600 (CST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101210002512.5CCF63FE0853@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:25:12 -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 517 ATHW40 PHFO 100025 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC FRI DEC 10 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC DECEMBER 10 2010 WATER VAPOR IMAGES SHOW A LARGE COMPLEX LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WEST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. A LARGE SWATH OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUD LAYERS GENERATED BY THIS SYSTEM COVERS THE AREA BETWEEN 153W AND 170W FROM 10N TO 30N. THE MOST ACTIVE PORTION WAS WITHIN A BAND EXTENDING ROUGHLY 600 MILES NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 25N 153W TO 20N 160W. THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS BAND ALONG NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST LINES WITH CLOUD TOPS REACHING UP TO 48000 FT. ONE OF THE BANDS...60 MILES WIDE...WAS CENTERED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE KAUAI CHANNEL. ANOTHER 60 MILE WIDE BAND WAS CENTERED ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI. RADAR DATA INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITHIN BOTH BANDS. THE SYSTEM/S LAYERED CLOUDS SOUTH OF 20N HAVE BEEN DRAWN UP FROM THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE...ITCZ...AND DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE MUCH EMBEDDED DEEP CONVECTION. THE DEEP CONVECTION CORES ASSOCIATED WITH THE ITCZ WERE MAINLY SOUTH OF 10N. OVER THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS...KAUAI...OAHU...MOLOKAI AND LANAI WERE OBSCURED BY BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUD LAYERS. HIGH CLOUD COVER WAS THIN ENOUGH OVER MAUI AND THE BIG ISLAND TO REVEAL THE LOWER LEVEL CLOUDS. MAUI HAD BROKEN LOW CLOUDS OVER THE SOUTHWEST SLOPES OF THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS AND ONLY A FEW CLOUDS ELSEWHERE. THE BIG ISLAND HAD BROKEN CLOUDS COVERING THE UPPER SLOPES OF MAUNA KEA AND MAUNA LOA BUT LOWER ELEVATIONS HAD VERY FEW LOW CLOUDS. $$ KODAMA +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.