Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:30:00 -0600
Based on data through 1800 UTC December 05 2010.
Water vapor imagery shows an upper level ridge across the central Pacific region between 170°W and 155°W. A sharp upper level trough is located just west of the dateline, spreading copious high level moisture northward between the dateline and 170°W. The subtropical upper level jet is located south of 15°N traversing between 160°W and 140°W.
Widespread layered mid and high clouds covers the area west of 170°W. This area of clouds is most dense and nearly continuous stretching north of 22°N across the far northwest Hawaiian islands west of maro reef. Within this area of layered clouds, .isolated embedded thunderstorms with tops to 45000 feet are found. These are mostly concentrated within 120 miles of the dateline north of 15°N. Elsewhere, the central Pacific is covered by an assortment of scattered to broken low topped stratocumulus decks, none of these more than 100 miles wide.
Over the main Hawaiian islands, skies are mainly clear, with scattered low clouds over the windward half of Kauai, and along the windward coasts of Molokai, Maui and the windward north Kohala coast of the Big Island. A small patch of low clouds covers the south Kona coast between South Point and Honaunau and extending over the nearby coastal waters within 30 miles. Cloud tops are ranging between 6000 and 8000 feet, except locally to 10000 feet over the coastal waters. Individual cloud elements are moving to the west northwest at 15 mph.
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