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08:30 AEST on Thursday 31 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 1800UTC chart on 30 July 2014
Issued at 6:17 am EST Thursday on 31 July 2014
The Sub-Tropical Ridge, or the belt linking the high pressure systems, stretches across the middle of the continent and maintains mainly clear skies. Embedded cold fronts with associated cloud are south of this in the vigorous westerly airstream over the Southern Ocean and Tasmania.
Areas of low cloud are over southwest Western Australia and the north tropical and central coast of Queensland in a moist onshore airstream.