Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:30:00 -0500
Based on data through 0000 UTC October 09 2010.
Visible satellite this afternoon shows a bit of afternoon cloud build ups on the main Hawaiian islands, concentrated mostly across the mountain ranges. On Kauai, broken cumulus clouds cover the interior area while most coastal areas have sunny skies. Oahu has clouds over the Waianae and Koolau ranges and the interior and north and south shores are sunny. Molokai has a thin line of cumulus clouds strung along the center of the island east to west. Lanai has scattered clouds across the southern portion of the island while the northern part is sunny. West Maui has cumulus clouds over the mountains and Haleakala along the lower slopes to 7 kft in elevation. The Big Island has broken cumulus clouds over most of the lower slopes also up to 7 kft in elevation and clear above that. A few larger breaks in the clouds are seen in the north and south Kohala districts. A few cumulus clouds are observed across the windward waters and several plume clouds are observed 50 to 200 miles leeward of the Big Island. Showers over the state are almost non-existent. Northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, several bands of stratus clouds persist from remnants of frontal boundaries. These cloud bands are between 300 to 700 miles northwest of Kauai.
Elsewhere, scattered cirrus clouds from upper level winds blowing tops off thunderstorms from west of the dateline cover an area bounded between 17°N to 27°N and 166°W to 180.
Unorganized showers and thunderstorms are present in the ITCZ far south of Hawaii. Most of the activity is concentrated between 07°N to 12°N across the central Pacific basin. Tops on some of the storm cells reach to 51 kft in height.
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