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15:30 AEST on Wednesday 12 March 2014 | 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 0000UTC chart on 12 March 2014
Issued at 12:05 pm EDT Wednesday on 12 March 2014
The monsoon trough extends across the Top End to Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Gillian" near the west coast of the Peninsula district, then to Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Hadi" over the Coral Sea. Areas of thunderstorms are evident in the vicintiy of the monsoon trough, mainly about the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and Peninsula district.
Further south, a cold front and associated cloud band extends from the southern NSW coast further south over the Tasman Sea. Thunderstorms are embedded in the cloud band. Patchy low cloud is evident behind the front over southern Victoria and Tasmania.
Generally clear conditions across the remainder of Australia apart from some high level cloud over southern districts of Western Australia.