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10:30 AEST on Friday 16 November 2018 | 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 5:07 am EDT Friday on 16 November 2018 A high pressure ridge is directing moist onshore winds over southeastern Australia resulting in a large area of low level cloud over eastern NSW and most of Tasmania. High cloud is also evident over Tasmania ahead of a weakening cold front. A trough of low pressure extending through central and southeastern Queensland to the Tasman Sea has produced thunderstorms off the coast of northeast NSW. A broad area of low pressure over northern, central and western Australia combined with moist, unstable air and an upper level jet stream has produced large areas of convective clouds, including thunderstorms, in these regions. Middle level cloud is being advected over central WA from the Indian Ocean by the sub-tropical jet stream. A high pressure ridge extending from Bass Strait is keeping conditions over inland southeast Australia mostly clear.