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19:30 UTC on Wednesday 27 January 2021 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Images from Japan Meteorological Agency satellite Himawari 8 via Bureau of Meteorology.
IDY28000 Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Bureau National Operations Centre Satellite Notes for 1800UTC Chart Issued at 6:08 am EDT Thursday on 28 January 2021 The dominant feature in the tropical north of the country is an active monsoon trough, which is causing convective cloud and thunderstorms and has several embedded lows. The low in the Gulf of Carpentaria is persistent, as is a low in the northern Kimberly region, both with areas of deep convective cloud and lightning. A large region of convective cloud and thunderstorms, associated with a surface trough, extends from southern WA, SA borders to the low in the northern Kimberley. Another surface trough extends from interior NT through Qld and central NSW, to VIC producing odd thunderstorms, mainly over NSW and QLD. A large mid to high level cloud band in the Tasman Sea is still connected to the coast of NSW. High level cloud is being drawn from the tropics over the interior of the continent through to southwestern SA and VIC. Moist onshore flow is bringing low level cloud to much of the southern mainland coastline. The remainder of the continent is mostly cloud free.