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07:00 ACST on Friday 26 April 2019 | 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 the 0600UTC Chart Issued at 5:00 pm EST Friday on 26 April 2019 An upper level disturbance and associated middle to upper level cloud is moving off the southeast Queensland coast, with a broad area of low cloud over remaining parts Queensland. A band of high cloud extends from waters off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia to western interior parts of Queensland. A cold front with a highly active line of embedded thunderstorms continues to move east through the Tasman Sea. Cellular clouds with isolated thunderstorms can be seen in the cold air behind the front over Tasmania, southern Victoria and adjacent waters. A high pressure system is generating onshore winds with patchy low cloud to the southern coastlines of Western Australia and South Australia while keeping central and remaining western and central parts of the continent clear.