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00:30 AEST on Wednesday 11 December 2013 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA.
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre
Satellite Notes for the 1200UTC chart on 10 December 2013
Issued at 11:00 pm EDT Tuesday on 10 December 2013
A cloud band streches from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to southeast Queensland and continues across the Tasman Sea towards New Zealand. Scattered thunderstorm activity is evident over the Kimberley and also through the northwest interior of Queensland. Another cloud band is evident through the interior of Western Australia streaming into Pastoral districts of South Australia. Thunderstorms are evident through much of the inland Pilbara and Gascoyne districts.
Further south, low cloud in the wake of a cold front is affecting southeast coastal parts of South Australia, Victoira and Tasmania. Cold air as depicted by speckled cloud is still bringing showers scattered showers to Tasmania.