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19:30 UTC on Wednesday 23 April 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 1800UTC chart on 23 April 2014.
Issued at 5:27 am EST Thursday on 24 April 2014
Scattered thunderstorms and showers are occurring over the northeast tropics of Australia with a band of middle level cloud streaming across the northeast of the NT and northeast Queensland and into the Coral Sea. This cloud mass is associated with a broad area of low pressure in conjunction with a trough in the middle levels of the atmosphere.
Isolated showers and thunderstorms over the far northeast of Victoria and southern coastal parts of New South Wales is due to another surface trough.
Middle and high level cloud streaming across much of the eastern Indian Ocean and over the central parts of the WA coast is associated with a low pressure system located further to the west.
The cloud band that extends over southeast coastal parts of South Australia, southwestern Victoria and Tasmania is associated with a cold front.