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02:30 AWST on Tuesday 22 August 2017 | Visible, greyscale, 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 0600UTC Chart on 22 August 2017 Issued at 8:54 pm EST Tuesday on 22 August 2017 A surface trough combined with an upper trough is creating a mid-level cloud band over the Tasman Sea. Significant thunderstorm activity is embedded in this cloud band. A weak cold front stretches from the south coast of Western Auatralia through the Great Australian Bight towards southern Tasmania. Low cloud covers much of Tasmania in a fresh northwesterly flow ahead of the front. This flow is also causing cloud over western Victoria and eastern South Australia. Southwest WA is under low cloud due to the onshore southwesterly airstream following the front. A middle level cloud band sweeps from the northern parts of the Indian Ocean over central WA to northern South Australia, and is associated with a weak surface low and trough interacting with a jetstream in the upper levels of the atmosphere. The remainder of the country is mostly clear under the influence of a high pressure ridge.