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06:30 AEST on Tuesday 27 September 2016 | 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 on 27 September 2016 Issued at 5:03 pm EST Tuesday on 27 September 2016 A field of convective cellular cloud over southeast Australia is associated with the passage of a cold front. Similarly, the afternoon heat and increased moisture has given rise to large swaths of convective cells appearing over tropical northern Australia. In the west, a cold front is crossing the southwest coast of WA generating a large cloud band with embedded thunderstorm activity. Patchy cumulus cloud is also observed ahead of the thick cloud band. An upper level cloud band is streaming down from tropical convection over the Indian Ocean west of Java to central Australia and central Queensland. This cloud is brought along by the upper level subtropical jet stream. The remainder of the continent is mostly cloud free due to a ridge of high pressure centred over South Australia.