SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU 100 PM CHST TUE FEB 25 2014 WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BETWEEN EQUATOR AND 25N FROM 130E TO 180. A SHEAR LINE EXTENDS SOUTHWESTWARD FROM EAST OF MINAMI TORI SHIMA AT 25N160E...THEN ACROSS THE NORTHERN MARIANAS NEAR ANATAHAN AT 16N146E TO END NORTH OF KOROR AT 8N134E. CLOUDINESS AND PATCHY SHOWERS ARE FOUND ALONG AND UP TO 250 MILES NORTHWEST OF THIS BOUNDARY. A NEAR-EQUATORIAL TROUGH EXTENDS SOUTH OF THE SHEAR LINE FROM WEST OF KOROR NEAR 7N130E TO 5N140E TO END NEAR A BROAD CIRCULATION NEAR CHUUK AT 7N153E. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING WEST OF KOROR FROM 5N TO 10N BETWEEN 130E AND 134E. A STRONGER BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING SOUTH OF THE TROUGH AXIS FROM THE EQUATOR TO 5N BETWEEN 130E AND 140E...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT EASTWARD TO 149E. IN THE AREA NORTH OF CHUUK AND EAST OF THE MARIANAS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE TROUGHING AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE IS AIDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ROUGHLY FROM 7N TO 16N BETWEEN 146E AND 160E. THIS AREA IS SLOWLY MOVING WESTWARD TOWARD THE MARIANAS BUT REMAINS UNORGANIZED. TRADE-WIND CONVERGENCE WITHIN THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE IS GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF KOSRAE AND THROUGH THE SOUTHERN MARSHALL ISLANDS...JUST SOUTH OF MAJURO...WITHIN 100 MILES OF A LINE FROM 5N166E TO 6N180.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:07:35 +0000
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