A mid to high level cloud band steams across much of Western Australia and South Australia ahead of a cold front that is approaching southwest WA. "Speckled" cold-air cloud can be seen in the wake of this front, Elsewhere a high pressure system in the Tasman Sea extends a ridge over northern and eastern parts of the country. Some mid level cloud lingers over southeast Queensland and northeast New South Whales as a trough in the upper levels of the atmopshere slowly tracks offshore.