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23:30 AEST on Monday 21 May 2012 | 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 21 May 2012
Issued at 12:06 am EST Tuesday on 22 May 2012
Cloud associated with cold front is moving across the Southern Ocean towards Tasmania. A northwesterly airstream ahead of the front has resulted in areas of low cloud about the east coast of South Australia, western Victoria and extending across to Bass Strait and Tasmania.
A high pressure ridge, which stretches over the the south of the continent, continues to direct onshore southeasterly winds along the Queensland coast with areas of low cloud, more widespread in the north.
Convection is visible near an inland trough over southern Queensland.
Patchy high level cloud can be seen over the interior of Western Australia.
