WWPN20 KNES 162128 SATELLITE WEATHER BULLETIN MTSAT VIS/IRNIGHT WEST PACIFIC OCEAN . SEPTEMBER 16 2006 2033Z . 29.6N 127.5E T5.5/6.0/W1.0/24HRS SHANSHAN (14W) . PAST POSITIONS...26.4N 125.3E 16/0833Z VIS/IRDAY 24.4N 123.9E 15/2033Z IRNIGHT ADDL POSITIONS...28.5N 126.9E 16/1726Z AMSRE 89/36 . REMARKS...SHANSHAN IS ACCELERATING TOWARD SW JAPAN AND THE LOW LEVEL AND MID LEVEL CIRCULATIONS APPEAR TO BE READY TO SEPARATE PER AMSRE IMAGE...IF IT HAS NOT ALREADY BEGUN. OW CENTER IS EMBEDDED IN LG FOR EYE NO OF 5.0 AND EYE ADJ OF .5 IS ADDED FOR SURROUNDING B RING FOR A DT OF 5.5. PT IS 5.5. MET IS WEAKENING FOR 5.5. FT IS 5.5 BASED ON DT. CI IS HELD AT 6.0 PER RULES. . POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN 30 NMI. . ------------ . 20.2N 155.4E T2.0/2.0/D1.5/24HRS 96W . PAST POSITIONS...19.3N 154.5E 16/0833Z VIS/IRDAY 19.9N 154.0E 16/0233Z VIS/IRDAY ADDL POSITIONS...20.5N 155.6E 16/1551Z AMSRE 89/36 20.3N 155.8E 16/1656Z AMSU 89 20.1N 156.0E 16/1859Z QSCAT AMBG. . REMARKS...VERY IMPRESSIVE CONVECTIVE CLUSTER IS SHEARED TO THE SE OF THE CIRCULATION. VISIBLE IMAGERY AND QSCAT ANALYSIS SHOW AN ELONGATED LLC FROM W-E... MI SHOWS LLC NEAR CONVECTION BUT CLASSIFICATION POSITION DOES NOT REFLECT DUE TO CURVATURE OF THE EXPOSED LL CU BANDS WEST OF 155E... USING BANDING THE CONVECTION WRAPS .3 AND .5 FOR WHITE FOR DT OF 2.0 AND SHEAR TECHNIQUE IS 1.4 DEGREES FROM DEEP CONVECTION FOR SUPPORT. PT IS 2.0. MET IS 1.5. FT IS 2.0 BASED ON PT. . POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN 60 NMI. . THE NEXT BULLETIN WILL BE ISSUED BY 17/0400Z. . FOR AREAL DISPLAY OF RAINFALL POTENTIAL SEE OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/TROP/TRAP-IMG.HTML ALL LOWER CASE LETTERS EXCEPT PS/TROP . GALLINA . NNNN