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15:30 AEST on Tuesday 10 December 2013 | 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 0000UTC chart on 10 December 2013
Issued at 12:40 pm EDT Tuesday on 10 December 2013
A trough of low pressure is resulting in an extensive cloud band extending from the Kimberley region of Western Australia through central Australia and northern New South Wales to the Tasman Sea. Isolated thunderstorms are evident within the cloud band over the Kimberley.
Another larger area of cloud with isolated thunderstorm activity over southern WA is caused by a surface low and upper level trough.
Cold air behind a cold front now in the Tasman Sea is causing areas of low cloud along the southern coasts of the continent as well as Tasmania, due to onshore winds.