ATHW40 PHFO 091800
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HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI
1800 UTC FRI MAY 09 2008

BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1730 UTC MAY 09 2008

Broken to overcast low clouds are mainly located in windward coastal, mauka and windward upslope sections on the individual isles this morning. This is especially so for the higher elevations on Kauai, the eastern third of east Maui, and the Hilo and Puna districts on the Big Island. Leeward areas are predominantly clear to partly cloudy. Low cloud movement is from the east to slightly north of east near 20 mph just east of the Big Island, and from the east at 25 to 30 mph elsewhere.

Skies are clear to scattered immediately south clockwise through west of all the islands as of bulletin time, though plume clouds are causing low ceilings farther downwind from the isles. Broken low clouds, some with embedded showers, are the rule north clockwise through east of the aloha state.

In the upper air above 30 thousand feet, a low appears to be located 150 miles southwest of Kauai and is moving toward the south or southwest. The axis of a trough extends from the low through the Kauai Channel to 22°N 155°W to 22°N 151°W. A jet stream is south of the trough and streaks from 14°N 170°W to 15°N 155°W to 16°N 140°W.

Showers and isolated thunderstorms are firing along the intertropical convergence zone far south of Hawaii. Most of the convection is found within 90 miles either side of a line through 06.5°N 160.5°W 04.5°N 164.0°W 02.0°N 171.0°W.

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