From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sun Dec 12 13:34:54 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 oBC5Yr0C020916 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:34:53 +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 oBANphAX027712; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:35 -0600 (CST) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4732358 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:35 -0600 Received: from relay03.cites.uiuc.edu (relay03.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.69]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oBC5YZRW007552 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay03.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oBC5YSqk011651 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:35 -0600 (CST) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id E51693FE087E; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:28 -0600 (CST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101212053428.E51693FE087E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:34:28 -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 719 ATHW40 PHFO 120534 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC SUN DEC 12 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC DECEMBER 12 2010 A LARGE FRONTAL CLOUD BAND LINGERED EAST OF THE STATE THIS SATURDAY EVENING. THE EAST EDGE OF THE 300 TO 400 MILES WIDE CLOUD BAND EXTENDED THROUGH 30N 140W TO 14N 146W. THIS BAND CONSISTED OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST MULTI-LAYERED CLOUDS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE BAND...MOSTLY SOUTH OF 20 NORTH LATITUDE. THE ACTUAL FRONT ITSELF EXTENDED ROUGHLY THROUGH 30N 142W TO NEAR 24N 150W. MUCH OF THE CLOUDINESS SOUTH OF THE FRONT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND THE PRESENCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ALOFT. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS EXTENDING THROUGH 30N 150W TO 20N 153W TO 14N 158W. THE UPPER TROUGH WAS MOVING EAST AT JUST OVER 25 MILES AN HOUR ALONG 30N AND NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR AT THE SOUTH END. ANOTHER FRONT FAR WEST-NORTHWEST OF THE STATE EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST THROUGH 30N 178W. HOWEVER...A LARGE MASS OF BROKEN TO OVERCAST CIRRUS CLOUDS WERE SPEWING EASTWARD AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE CIRRUS WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30N 160W TO 25N 180E. BUT A FEW SMALL STRANDS AND FRAGMENTS WERE OBSERVED OUT AHEAD OF THE MAIN MASS WITHIN ONLY 140 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI. NEAR ISLANDS...SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS WERE NOTED MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM 22N 154W TO THE NORTH COAST OF KAUAI TO 24N 170W. A SMALL SMATTERING OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUD PATCHES WERE OBSERVED OVER THE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT WATERS. THE LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS WERE MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR. FAR SOUTH OF THE STATE...ISOLATED ITCZ THUNDERSTORMS AND MULTI-LAYERED CLOUDS OCCUPIED THE AREA BETWEEN 07N AND 10N FROM 145W TO 164W. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.