From: LDM Weather (ldm@WEATHER3.ADMIN.NIU.EDU)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 23:21:35 EDT
948
ATPQ40 PGUM 110321
SIMGUM
SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU
1 PM CHST SAT OCT 11 2008
WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BETWEEN EQUATOR AND 25N FROM 130E TO 180.
A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDS NORTHWESTWARD FROM 5N138E TO 10N135E...THEN
NORTHWARD TO END AT 21N135E. TRADE WINDS CONVERGING IN THE VICINITY
OF THE TROUGH ARE COUPLING WITH UPPER-LEVEL DIVERGENCE TO PRODUCE
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER KOROR AND WEST OF
YAP WITHIN 250 MILES OF THE TROUGH AXIS.
ANOTHER SURFACE TROUGH REACHES NORTHEASTWARD FROM YAP TO 21N134E.
CONVERGENT TRADE WINDS NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF THE TROUGH ARE TEAMING
WITH UPPER-LEVEL DIVERGENCE TO PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST OF YAP BETWEEN 10N AND 17N FROM
138E TO 142E...AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE MARIANAS WITHIN 75 MILES OF
A LINE FROM 14N147E TO 8N150E.
A THIRD SURFACE TROUGH ANGLES NORTHEASTWARD FROM 4N151E TO A WEAK
CIRCULATION CENTERED SOUTHWEST OF POHNPEI NEAR 6N156E...THEN
EASTWARD TO END AT 6N164E. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING JUST EAST OF CHUUK AND OVER POHNPEI
BETWEEN THE EQUATOR AND 10N FROM 151E TO 160E...AND ALSO BETWEEN 5N
AND 10N FROM 160E TO 165E. KOSRAE LIES ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THIS
AREA.
SCATTERED TRADE-WIND SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FOUND
EAST OF MAJURO BETWEEN 5N AND 10N FROM 175E TO 180.
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