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19:30 AEST on Friday 21 February 2020 | 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 0600UTC Chart Issued at 6:12 pm EDT Friday on 21 February 2020 A trough of low pressure near the western WA coastline is generating a patchy middle level cloud band with active isolated thunderstorms. A second trough extending from northern WA, across the NT's Top End and through into the Gulf of Carpentaria can be seen linking up with an embedded low pressure system within the Monsoon Trough. Large areas of convective cloud and thunderstorms are being generated by the tropical low pressure system throughout the Gulf, as well as over northern parts of QLD and the NT's Top End. Further thunderstorm activity can be seen in central and eastern QLD near another low pressure system and trough extending through the inland of the state. A dominant high pressure system to the south of the country is generating an onshore south to southeasterly airstream and bringing low level cloud onto coastal parts of southern WA, SA, Victoria, Tasmania and NSW. Patchy upper level cloud can also be seen extending through NSW and towards the Tasman Sea which is caught within an upper level jetstream.