CAPTION: This 24 hour animation begins at 1115 GMT on June 13 (essentially at dawn) and continues with frames being updated every 30 minutes until 1045 GMT on June 14. Although the frame window is small, it displays the full resolution GOES-8 IR imagery for the region. The distance across the full width of the frame window is 770 km.

On this day, a large system over Panama gradually weakens throughout the day with a gradually thinning cirrus shield being present for most of the daylight hours. Immediately after sunset areas of strong local convection break out along an offshore convergence line on the Caribbean side of the isthmus.

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