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Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:30:00 -0500
Based on data through 0000 UTC September 17 2010.
High pressure centered 400 miles north of the state are providing trade winds across the central Pacific from the equator to 26°N. Low clouds are moving along with the trades between 10 to 20 mph. Scattered to broken low stratocumulus are located between 10°N and 23°N from 140°W to 170°W. North of 23°N to 30°N skies are mostly clear with a high pressure ridge running along 27°N producing the clearer skies.
Windward and mountain areas of the main islands, except Oahu, have mostly cloudy skies with trade winds pushing moisture up the mountain slopes. Oahu has mostly clear skies on both windward and leeward sides of the island. The leeward coast and lower slopes of the Big Island, the lower slopes of the Kau district, and the lower slopes of Haleakala have mostly cloudy skies. Other leeward locations have partly cloudy to mostly clear skies. Windward coastal waters have patches of overcast skies mixed with partly cloudy skies. The coastal waters have mostly clear skies with patches of broken clouds moving along with trade winds.
Water vapor imagery shows an upper level low spinning near 20°N and the dateline. The upper low is producing scattered thunderstorms near the center of the low with cloud tops reaching 47 thousand feet.
Far south of the islands within the intertropical convergence zone, scattered thunderstorms are forming between 5°N and 13°N. Within the same area, unorganized convection is associated with a weak surface low near 11°N 142°W and a weak surface trough near 11°N 159°W. Cloud top heights are reaching as high as 52 thousand feet in these thunderstorms.
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Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:30:00 -0500
Based on data through 1800 UTC September 16 2010.
High pressure centered 400 miles north of the state are providing trade winds across the central Pacific from the equator to 28°N. Low clouds are moving along with the trades from 10 to 20 mph. Scattered to broken low stratocumulus are located between 10°N and 23°N from 140°W to 170°W. North of 23°N to 30°N skies are mostly clear with a high pressure ridge running along 27°N.
Windward and mountain areas of the main islands have mostly cloudy skies with trade winds pushing moisture up the mountain slopes. Leeward locations are partly cloudy to mostly clear. Windward coastal waters have patches of overcast skies mixed with partly cloudy skies. Leeward coastal waters are mostly clear with the exception of Kauai waters which are mostly cloudy.
Water vapor imagery shows an upper level low spinning near 20°N and the dateline. The upper low is producing scattered thunderstorms near the center of the low with cloud tops reaching 45 thousand feet.
Far south of the islands within the intertropical convergence zone, scattered thunderstorms are forming between 5°N and 13°N. Within the same area, unorganized convection is associated with a weak surface low near 11°N 142°W and another weak low pressure near 11°N 158°W. Cloud top heights are reaching as high as 52 thousand feet in these thunderstorms.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:30:00 -0500
Based on data through 0500 UTC September 16 2010.
Trade winds continued to sweep relatively sparse patches of scattered cumulus clouds through the Hawaiian islands early this Wednesday evening. There were a few small clusters of scattered to broken low clouds strewn about the area, but they were few and far between.
At 7 pm, a few small clusters surrounded Kauai with most of them already moving off to the west. But several more clusters were seen upwind of the garden isle, just over 200 miles east of Kauai, or about 125 miles east-northeast of Oahu. A much larger cluster of mostly broken cumulus clouds was immediately southeast of the Big Island. This large cluster will likely just brush the south side of the Big Island as it passes south of the Big Island overnight. Oahu and the Maui county islands were seeing the fewest clouds at the moment.
An upper level low well west of the state near 22°N 177°W was moving west at 10 to 15 miles an hour. Isolated thunderstorms were forming within 125 miles of the center. A large strand of cirrus along the east side of the low was centered between 14°N 173°W and 22°N 169°W. But this low was having no effect on the Hawaiian islands.
Isolated thunderstorms were developing in association with weak low level vortices near 11°N 152°W and 11°N 140°W. Otherwise, it was rather quiet along the ITCZ.
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Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Hawaiian Islands Satellite Interpretation Message
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:30:00 -0500
Based on data through 0000 UTC September 16 2010.
The Hawaiian islands continue to be on the southern edge of a north-south gradient of low clouds, with scattered to broken stratocumulus /sc/, and embedded showery cumulus /cu/, near and upwind of the islands, while few low clouds prevail over waters north of the islands, from 25°N to 32°N between 140°W and 170°W.
Moderate trade winds continue to prevail over the islands, and while this usually means clouds favoring windward areas, many leeward areas have some form of low cloud cover this afternoon. The entire island of Kauai is covered in broken low clouds, with both sc and cu over the island, and over waters out to 30 miles to the east. Broken cu prevail over the entire island of Oahu, but the central plateau has some breaks in the low cloud ceilings. Broken cu are over the extreme eastern tip of Molokai, but are also located along the southwest coast. The southern half of Lanai is covered in broken to overcast cu and sc, while the northern half of the island is mostly sunny. Aside from scattered cu from Hana to Kipahulu, the north and east facing slopes of Haleakala on Maui are mostly sunny, while broken to overcast sc and cu are over the southwestern and western lower slopes. The windward side of the west Maui mountains have their typical broken low clouds along the lower slopes, but the central valley is mostly sunny. The Kona and Kau slopes of the Big Island are covered in overcast sc, with isolated cu embedded, blanketing skies over the lower slopes from Puako counter-clockwise to South Point to wood valley. The lower slopes along the Hamakua coast have similar cloud coverage, with scattered to broken cu along the slopes above Hilo town. The summits and upper elevations of both Maui and the Big Island are sunny, as is the area between wood valley and Volcano on the Big Island.
While scattered to broken cu prevail over near shore waters east of Kauai and Oahu, and over waters immediately east of the Big Island, near shore windward waters of Maui county are mostly sunny. However, the leading edge of a 100 mile wide clump of showery cu and stable sc lies about 50 miles east of Hana on Maui. Low cloud motion near the islands is toward the west at speeds near 22 mph.
The islands of Kauai and Oahu have rid themselves of the high clouds that have been around, on and off, for the past several days. The source of the high clouds, a slow moving low aloft to the west of the islands, has sufficiently distanced itself, and the nearest high clouds are now about 500 miles west of Kauai. The low aloft is centered about 1050 miles west of Kauai, and it continues to drift west. Isolated thunderstorms continue to develop near the core of the low, and are currently located from 20°N to 24°N between 174°W and 177°W.
Isolated thunderstorms are developing in association with a weak tropical low passing well south of the islands, near 11°N 153°W. The westward moving disturbance lacks significant organization, with isolated thunderstorms developing elsewhere within the near equatorial trade wind convergence zone south of the islands.
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