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20:30 UTC on Tuesday 3 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 1800UTC chart on 4 March 2015 Issued at 5:54 am EDT Thursday on 05 March 2015 A monsoon trough is generating areas of thunderstorms about the Kimberley and Pilbara coasts of Western Australia. High and middle level cloud is streaming from this area through the interior and across the Bight. An established upper level trough is generating this extensive cloud band. Thunderstorms are also active over central Australia, the Top End and far north Queensland. Further south, a strong cold front is progressing across Victoria to the east of Tasmania. An area of speckled cloud depicts a particularly cold air mass over Tasmania. Another frontal system is tracking further south across the Tasman Sea towards the south island of New Zealand.