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05:30 AEST on Sunday 19 May 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 1800UTC chart on 18 May 2013
Issued at 5:00 am EST Sunday on 19 May 2013
Patchy middle level cloud extends over the tropical north. This is the result of an upper level trough. An area of thunderstorms is visible over far northwest Australia.
Convective cloud and cold air remains over the Tasman Sea and far eastern Tasmania due to a complex area of low pressure. Southerly winds are causing patchy areas of low cloud over parts of southeast Australia.
A low pressure trought extends through the Bight and into the Southern Ocean with an associated cloud band and isolated thunderstorms affecting that region. Some low level cloud remains to the west over southern coastal and southwestern parts of WA. Some patchy high level cloud extends over southwest WA as a result of a Jet stream in the upper levels of the atmosphere.