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05:30 AEST on Saturday 25 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 24 May 2013
Issued at 5:45 am EST Saturday on 25 May 2013
A complex low pressure system, off the north coast of New South Wales, is pushing low cloud along the northern New South Wales and southeast Queensland coast. A significant cloud band, associated with this low and an upper trough, extends from the Coral Sea down to the North Island of New Zealand.
A broad area of convective cloud lies over waters to the north of Western Australia. Patchy low cloud off the Western Australian west coast is due to a surface trough, which is located offshore.
While patchy low cloud over the Bight and adjacent coast is the result of a strong slow moving high pressure system. Cloud to the south of the continent is associated with a series of cold fronts.