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13:30 UTC 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 0600UTC chart on 6 March 2015 Issued at 7:01 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. A trough extending across the Top End, to the east coast of Queensland causing extensive areas of thunderstorms. Further south, southerly flow behind a strong cold front in the Tasman Sea is causing low cloud to impact Tasmania and Victoria.