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13:00 ACST on Tuesday 29 July 2014 | 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 29 July 2014
Issued at 11:46 am EST Tuesday on 29 July 2014
The Sub-Tropical Ridge, or the belt linking the high pressure systems, stretches across the middle of the continent. Embedded cold fronts with associated cloud are south of this in the vigorous westerly airstream over the Southern Ocean.
A line of jetstream cloud stretches from New South Wales across the Tasman Sea.
Some middle level cloud is visible about the West Kimberley and East Pilbara, WA. Areas of low cloud are over southwest WA in a moist onshore airstream.