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00:30 AEST 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 1800UTC chart on 28 July 2014
Issued at 5:00 am 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.
A line of jetstream cloud stretches from southern South Australia and southern New South Wales to the Tasman Sea.
Some patchy middle level cloud is visible about the northern tropics.