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16:00 ACST on Monday 28 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 28 July 2014
Issued at 5:57 pm EST Monday on 28 July 2014
The Sub-Tropical Ridge, or the belt linking the high pressure systems, stretches across the middle of the continent. Embedded cold fronts and troughs with associated cloud are south of this in the vigorous westerly airstream over the Southern Ocean. A cold front has just reached western Tasmania.
A line of jetstream cloud stretches from southern Western Australia scross southern South Australia, northern Victoria and southern New South Wales.
Some middle level cloud is visible over the Kimberley region, WA and also over Cape York Peninsula.