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14:30 AEST on Saturday 4 February 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 0001UTC chart on 04 February 2012
Issued at 12:08 pm EDT Saturday on 04 February 2012
The monsoon trough lies over north Queensland extending to a low over the Coral Sea. Rain areas, showers and isolated thunderstorms are occuring in the vicinity of the low and also about the tropical Queensland coast.
Further east, a surface trough from central Queensland to southeastern NSW is producing low level convective clouds over eastern Australia.
To the south, a pre-frontal trough over far eastern WA is leading to areas of low to mid level clouds with some embbed thunderstorms over South Australia. However, due to the influence of the strong high pressure system over the Indian Ocean, clouds over southern WA are predominantly low and non-convective. Hence, overcast conditions over southern WA.
