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04:30 UTC on Thursday 12 December 2019 | 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 Issued at 12:53 pm EDT Thursday on 12 December 2019 Cloud over Western and South Australia is being driven by a trough above the surface in the middle levels of the atmosphere. A cold front has just crossed Tasmania and southern parts of Victoria, leaving speckled low cloud through the area in its wake. A high pressure ridge extending over the southern coastline of the continent is keeping things settled in the region, with areas of widespread low cloud trapped under the inversion through the Bight. Low cloud over the New South Wales coast is from an onshore airstream. Ongoing areas of thick smoke affect eastern NSW and coastal parts of southern Queensland. Enhanced tropical convection over the Coral Sea is associated with a slow moving surface trough with an embeded low. Further convection can be seen to the west of the Gulf of Carpentaria on a seperate trough.