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12:00 ACST on Tuesday 29 July 2014 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA.
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre
Satellite Notes for the 0600UTC chart on 29 July 2014
Issued at 5:17 pm EST Tuesday on 29 July 2014
The Sub-Tropical Ridge, or the belt linking the high pressure systems, stretches across the middle of the continent. Embedded cold fronts with associated cloud are south of this in the vigorous westerly airstream over the Southern Ocean and Tasmania.
A line of jetstream cloud stretches from northeast New South Wales over the Tasman Sea.
Areas of low cloud are over southwest Western Australia in a moist onshore airstream.