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17:30 AEST on Saturday 31 January 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 1200UTC chart on 31 January 2015 Issued at 11:13 pm EDT Saturday on 31 January 2015 A broad area of cloud with some embedded thunderstorms covers large parts of Western Australia and extends into the Top End and western parts of the Northern Territory. This cloud is associated with a surface trough which stretches from central WA to the Northern Territory and also an upper low just off the WA west coast. Isolated diurnal thunderstorms remain about parts of Tropical North Queensland while the storms associated with a surface trough over southeast Queensland and the far northeast of NSW have mostly dissipated or cleared to the east. Tropical cyclone Ola lies well to the east of Queensland in the Coral Sea. Areas of cloud wrapping around a deep low pressure system in the Tasman Sea cover parts of Tasmania, Victoria and the far southeast of New South Wales.