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21:30 AEST on Friday 6 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 1200UTC chart on 6 December 2013
Issued at 11:07 pm EDT Friday on 06 December 2013
A cloud band with embedded thunderstorms over central and eastern parts of Western Australia extends into the Great Australian Bight. This cloud is associated with a slow-moving surface trough. Isolated seasonal thunderstorms can also be seen over the far northern tropics of Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Frontal cloud over New Zealand and the eastern Tasman Sea connects to a deep low to the west of New Zealand. Patchy low cloud over Tasmania and southern Victoria lies within a moist southwesterly airflow to the west of this low.