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12:30 UTC on Friday 24 May 2013 | Cloud/surface composite, Australia
Images from Japan Meteorological Agency satellite MTSAT via Bureau of Meteorology.
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre
Satellite Notes for the 1200UTC chart on 24 May 2013
Issued at 11:55 pm EST Friday on 24 May 2013
A complex low, just off the north coast of NSW, is driving low and middle level cloud along the northern NSW and southeast Queensland coast.
A cloud band, associated with an upper trough, extends from Papua New Guinea down over the Coral Sea to the North Island of New Zealand. A broad area of isolated embedded thunderstorms lies over waters to the north of Western Australia.
While patchy low cloud over the Bight and adjacent coast is the result of a strong slow moving high pressure system. Cloud to the south of the continent is associated with a series of cold fronts.