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09:00 ACDT on Saturday 18 January 2020 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Images from Japan Meteorological Agency satellite Himawari 8 via Bureau of Meteorology.
IDY28000 Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Bureau National Operations Centre Satellite Notes for the 0600UTC Chart Issued at 6:24 pm EDT Saturday on 18 January 2020 Ex-Tropical Cyclone Claudia remains well offshore from the WA west coast over the Indian Ocean with only a small area of middle and high level cloud remaining. A broad surface trough extends from western WA across central Australia to eastern QLD. Another surface trough extends from southeast QLD through northeast NSW and into the Tasman Sea. Thunderstorms can be seen to the north of the surface trough over northern and northwestern WA, the southern NT, and near the coasts of the Top End, northern QLD, southeast QLD and northeast NSW. A middle level cloud band extends over eastern NSW and through the Tasman Sea to the South Island of New Zealand. Middle to high level cloud is streaming across parts of northern SA, northern Vic and western NSW ahead of an upper level trough, with thunderstorms developing over eastern VIC and southern NSW. Some low cloud extends over TAS and southern VIC in a moist onshore airstream driven by a high pressure ridge over the Southern Ocean. Low cloud is also over southern WA due to a new ridge moving over the region.