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15:30 AEST on Thursday 23 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 0600UTC chart on 23 February 2012
Issued at 5:16 pm EDT Thursday on 23 February 2012
Humid, unsettled conditions continue over the northern tropics and widespread convective clouds are evident on the satellite picture. A weak monsoon trough also lies to the northwest of WA.
Extensive high and middle level cloud, associated with an upper trough, is streaming from southwest QLD into the Tasman Sea.
Middle level cloud and isolated convective cells are also evident near the WA west coast and are associated with a surface trough.
Large parts of southern Australia remain cloud free although a cold front and its associated cloud band are evident east of TAS over the Tasman Sea.
