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16:30 AEST on Thursday 5 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 0000UTC chart on 5 December 2013
Issued at 12:49 pm EDT Thursday on 05 December 2013
A surface trough and associated cloud band with isolated embedded thunderstorms extends over northern and eastern Australia eventually merging with a cold front over the Tasman Sea. A very cold air mass exists behind this front over agricultural areas of South Australia, southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania as depicted by the speckled cloud.
A ridge of high pressure over southern Western Australia is maintaining mostly clear conditions apart from some low cloud along the southern coast.