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06:30 AEST on Thursday 20 June 2019 | 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 1800UTC Chart Issued at 5:48 am EST Thursday on 20 June 2019 A pool of cold air with speckled convective cloud is moving over southeastern Australia and western Tasman Sea in the southerly flow behind a cold front approaching New Zealand. A region of mid-level cloud over eastern WA, near the NT border is associated with a nearby trough. Further south, patchy areas of low cloud over western NSW and northwestern Victoria is trapped under a temperature inversion caused by a dominant high pressure ridge. A developing low pressure system and trough is moving northeast across Bight waters towards the Eyre Peninsula in SA. High cloud is crossing the southwest of WA associated with a low a cold front well offshore. Another cold front is now slipping southeast across the Southern Ocean south of the Bight. The remainder of the continent is mostly cloud free.