Australia Weather

A slow moving low pressure system and its associated trough bring patchy low to mid level cloud across southeastern Australia. Another trough with embedded thunderstorms lays in the Tasman Sea, extending towards the New South Wales coast. A thick band of low to mid level cloud with embedded thunderstorms can be seen over the southwestern coast of Western Australia, associated with an approaching cold front. A ridge of high pressure extends along the Queensland coast, directing an onshore flow with patchy low level cloud over the north tropical coast Broad areas of mid to high level cloud stream over central Western Australia, generated by a mid level trough in the Indian Ocean. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.