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21:30 AWST 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 0600UTC chart on 01 February 2015 Issued at 5:59 pm EDT Sunday on 01 February 2015 Areas of mostly middle level cloud with embedded thunderstorms cover large parts of Western Australia and adjacent parts of Northern Territory. These areas of cloud are associated with a surface trough which stretches from the central parts of Western Australia to the Northern Territory and also an upper low just off the Western Australia west coast. Isolated thunderstorms remain about parts of Tropical North Queensland and is associated with another surface trough. Tropical cyclone Ola remains slow moving well to the east of Queensland in the Coral Sea. Areas of cloud wrapping around a weakening low pressure system in the Tasman Sea cover parts of Tasmania, Victoria and eastern New South Wales. A few thunderstorms can be seen along the New South Wales coast and over eastern Victoria.