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20:30 AEST on Saturday 18 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 0600UTC chart on 18 May 2013
Issued at 5:00 pm EST Saturday on 18 May 2013
Patchy middle level cloud extends over northern Western Australia, the Northern Territory and through northern Queensland to the east coast. This is the result of an upper level trough. An area of thunderstorms is visible over far northern Australia.
Convective cloud and cold air remains over the Tasman Sea and far eastern Tasmania due to a deep low pressure system. Southerly winds are causing patchy areas of low cloud over parts of southeast Australia.
A cold front extends from the far southwest of South Australia through the Bight and into the Southern Ocean with an associated cloud band and isolated thunderstorms affecting that region. Some low level cloud remains to the west of the front over southern coastal and southwestern parts of WA. Some patchy high level cloud extends over southwest WA as a result of a Jet Stream in the upper levels of the atmosphere.