Issued: Jul 03, 2009 2:00 PM HST
Based on data through 2:00 pm Jul 02 2009 HST
Conditions are sunny to partly cloudy over most of the aloha state. Low ceilings this early afternoon are mainly affecting mauka and upslope areas on the individual isles. Also, much of the Big Island is becoming cloud covered as of bulletin time, though leeward coastal sections are clear to scattered. Low cloud motion is from the east near 15 mph across the island chain.
Skies are clear to scattered in the adjacent coastal waters.
An upper trough remains nearly stationary just east of the isles. The most recent water vapor images and GFS model data show the axis of the system to be along a line from 24°N 154°W to 16°N 154.5°W to 07°N 157°W. Broken high clouds have been forming on the east side of the trough axis.
Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are firing along the intertropical convergence zone far south of Hawaii. Most of the activity is currently igniting from 03°N to 06°N between 143°W and 148°W, from 06°N to 11°N between 148°W and 151°W, and from 02°N to 08.5°N between 163°W and the date line at 180.
