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05:30 AEST on Thursday 13 March 2014 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA.
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre
Satellite Notes for the 1200UTC chart on 12 March 2014
Issued at 12:49 am EDT Thursday on 13 March 2014
Monsoon trough extends across the Top End to Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Gillian" in the Gulf of Carpentaria to Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Hadi" over the Coral Sea. Areas of thunderstorms are evident in the vicintiy of the monsoon trough, mainly about the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Peninsula district and the top end.
A cold front and moist southeasterly flow across the NSW coast is generating low and middle level cloud. Isolated thunderstorms are embedded in this cloud band. Patchy low cloud is evident behind the front over southern Victoria and Bass strait islands.
A band of cloud with embedded thunderstorms is associated with a surface trough across northern, central-west and southwestern parts of Western Australia.
Generally clear conditions across the remainder of Australia.