From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Tue Dec 14 13:30:50 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 oBE5UnBR013164 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:30:50 +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 oBDJJ9mQ027712; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:31 -0600 (CST) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4761400 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:31 -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 oBE5UVcZ006944 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:31 -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 oBE5UOHT009568 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:30 -0600 (CST) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7151C3FE087B; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:24 -0600 (CST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101214053024.7151C3FE087B@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:30:24 -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 030 ATHW40 PHFO 140530 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC TUE DEC 14 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC DECEMBER 14 2010 THE MOST NOTICEABLE CLOUD FEATURE ACROSS THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC IS A RAGGED 300 TO 500 MILE WIDE BAND OF OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 35N140W TO 30N155W TO 20N166W TO 14N180W. THIS BAND EXTENDS FARTHER TO THE NORTHEAST...REACHING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION OF THE MAINLAND. ISOLATED CUMULONIMBUS...CB...ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LEADING EDGE OF THE MAIN LAYERED CLOUD BAND...WITH THE CLOSEST CB ABOUT 300 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI. BREAKAWAY SEGMENTS OF HIGH CLOUDS HAVE PUSHED SOUTHEAST OF THE MAIN CLOUD BAND...REACHING KAUAI AND SURROUNDING WATERS THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...THE MAIN CLOUD BAND APPEARS TO BE NEARLY STATIONARY. SOUTHEAST OF THE CLOUD BAND...LOW LEVEL FLOW APPEARS TO BE GOVERNED BY A SURFACE RIDGE WITH AN AXIS EXTENDING ROUGHLY THROUGH 34N140W AND 26N155W. THIS PLACES THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AT THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE AND LIGHT SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST LOW CLOUD MOTION IS NOTED THERE. LOW CLOUD COVER IS DECREASING ACROSS THE ISLANDS AS EVENING COOLING SETS IN. KAUAI...OAHU...LANAI AND THE BIG ISLAND ALL APPEAR TO HAVE SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS TO CLEAR SKIES. MOLOKAI HAS SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS ACROSS ITS CENTRAL THIRD WHICH ARE SLOUGHING OFF TO THE NORTH. BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS PERSIST ACROSS WEST AND NORTHEAST-FACING HALEAKALA SLOPES ON MAUI...AS WELL AS ACROSS THE MAUI SADDLE AND THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST MAUI. CLOUD COVER ACROSS LOCAL WATERS IS GENERALLY SCATTERED TO CLEAR. ISOLATED CB ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN BROKEN TO OVERCAST LAYERED CLOUDS EAST OF 154W BETWEEN 06N AND 12N. ADDITIONAL ISOLATED CB ARE NOTED WEST OF 175W BETWEEN 08N AND 13N. $$ POWELL +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.