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17:30 AEST on Sunday 28 December 2014 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA.
IDY28000 Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Bureau National Operations Centre Satellite Notes for the 0600UTC chart on 28 December 2014 Issued at 7:19 pm EDT Sunday on 28 December 2014 A broad cloud band extends from northern parts of the Territory to northeastern New South Wales and is associated with an upper trough. Isolated embedded thunderstorms remain about the Top End and Gulf Country. Isolated thunderstorm activity is also evident over the inland region of New South Wales. The remainder of Australia is mostly cloud free. Severe Tropical Cyclone "Kate" which remains slow moving to the west of the Cocos Islands. A cold front is moving over waters well to the south of the Great Australian Bight.