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03:30 AEST on Thursday 2 April 2020 | 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 Issued at 5:21 am EDT Thursday on 02 April 2020 The broad convective cloud band stretching from central Australia through to southeast Australia is generated by the interaction between a surface trough of low pressure with an upper-level atmospheric disturbance. Embedded thunderstorms are observed over northern SA, southern NT and western NSW within this cloud band. High cloud streaming over southern WA is associated with a deep low pressure system over the southern Indian Ocean. The high cloud is being advected along the subtropical jet stream away from the low towards southern WA. A weak trough near the NT/WA border is still producing active convection in its vicinity including thunderstorms over the Kimberley. A weak onshore flow over the NSW coast tonight has brought patchy to overcast low cloud over the eastern ranges extending from southeast QLD southwards along the dividing ranges.