Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:30:00 -0600
Based on data through 1800 UTC November 11 2010.
Water vapor imagery shows an upper level trough is centered about 300 miles to the west and southwest of Kauai. The trough has been nearly stationary over the past 12 hours. A broad swath of high cirrus clouds are being drawn up from the south on the east side of this upper trough. A good size portion of these high clouds are moving over the main Hawaiian islands. The thickest cloud elements are presently moving over the Big Island while the clouds are a little thinner over the central and west end of the state.
The above mentioned high clouds are attempting to obscure what little in the way of low clouds are currently present over the islands themselves. Over Kauai patches of low clouds can be seen over the eastern slopes. Over Oahu low clouds are baned up over the slopes and summits of the Koolau range. Just a few patches of low clouds are seen over eastern Molokai and northern Lanai. Over Maui a few patches of low clouds are seen over the northern and eastern slopes of Haleakala as well as over the slopes and summits of the west Maui mountains. The above mentioned high clouds are obscuring much of the Big Island but there does appear to be some patches of low clouds along the windward slopes from north Kohala southward through the Hilo and Puna districts.
Further upwind of the state lies a broad field of broken stratocumulus clouds that are moving westward at around 20 mph.
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