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16:30 AEST on Sunday 5 April 2020 | Cloud/surface composite, 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 the 1800UTC Chart Issued at 5:10 am EST Monday on 06 April 2020 Extensive cellular cloud associated with a cold airmass is moving across the Southern Ocean and over the southeast states. Low level stratocumulus cloud over the Bight waters and the southern coast, is trapped underneath a subsidence inversion is associated with High pressure centered over the Bight, extending a ridge into central Australia. A mass of convective cloud from thunderstorms over the nKimberely, Top End and northern Cape York Peninsula is triggered by a low level trough and airmass moisture. An extensive area of think mid to high level cloud and associated shower and thunderstorm activity extends over inland WA. Remaining parts of central Australia is relatively cloud free.