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09:30 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 1800UTC chart on 5 March 2015 Issued at 5:40 am EDT Friday on 06 March 2015 Showers and thunderstorms are active about the Kimberley and Pilbara distrcts of Western Australia due to a low pressure trough. 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 occuring over parts of the Top End and far north Queensland. Further south, a strong cold front is moving across the Tasman Sea while another strong frontal system is impacting Tasmania. A significant area of cloud is streaming ahead of this front across Bass Strait and eastern Victoria. This front connects to a developing low to the south.