Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:30:00 -0600
Based on data through 0500 UTC January 03 2011.
Water vapor imagery shows an upper level low centered near 12°N 165°W, about 900 miles southwest of the main Hawaiian islands, moving west at 20 mph. Extensive high and mid level layered clouds covers a large area between the low and the main Hawaiian islands. Isolated embedded thunderstorms are within 300 miles on the eastern side of the upper low, with cloud tops to 45000 feet.
Elsewhere across the area, a southwesterly upper level jet is positioned across the northwest corner of the area, west through north of Midway atoll, dragging thick layers of mid level clouds ahead of an approaching cold front located several hundred miles west of the dateline.
Over the main Hawaiian islands, thin high cloud layers are obscuring the low level cloud features on infrared satellite imagery. A combination of surface observations and local radar imagery suggests broken low clouds cover the windward sides of all islands, and these are locally being blown to leeward areas by 25 to 30 mph cloud level winds. These low clouds are bringing scattered showers to many windward locations, especially prominent across the southeastern side of the Big Island from Volcano to South Point.
BRENCHLEY
To change your subscriptions or preferences or stop subscriptions anytime, log in to your User Profile with your e-mail address. For questions or problems with the service, contact support@govdelivery.com.
This service is provided by NOAA’s National Weather Service.
GovDelivery, Inc. (800-439-1420) sending on behalf of NOAA's National Weather Service · 1325 East West Highway · Silver Spring, MD 20910
No comments:
Post a Comment