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14:30 AEST on Thursday 5 March 2015 | 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 0000UTC chart on 6 March 2015 Issued at 12:26 pm EDT Friday on 06 March 2015 Showers and thunderstorms are active about the Kimberley and Pilbara districts of Western Australia due to a low pressure trough. High and middle level cloud is streaming from this area across southern WA to western South Australia. An established upper level trough is generating this extensive cloud band. Thunderstorms are also occurring over far north Queensland. High cloud is streaming over southeast Queensland due to a jet stream. Further south, a strong cold front has now moving over the Tasman Sea with low cloud behind the front impacting Tasmania and Victoria. This front connects to a developing low to the south.