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01:00 ACST on Thursday 18 October 2018 | 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 1200UTC Chart Issued at 12:22 am EDT Thursday on 18 October 2018 A low pressure system extends across central Queensland, through eastern NSW and connects to a front over Victoria and into a low near Tasmania. Associated active cloud band and thunderstorm activity is visible within the vicinity of the trough, cold front and the low. An area of extensive cloud in observed east of Queensland coasts due to an easterly trough in the Coral Sea. A trough with associated cloud and thunderstorms extends from northern WA through to northern NT. An extensive area of cloud associated with a cold front is approaching WA from the west. Meanwhile, a weak trough over southern WA is generating thundery showers. A broad area of low cloud lingers about the southeast SA coast within an onshore southerly flow. The remainder of Australia is mostly clear due to a high pressure ridge.