Australia Weather

A patchy sheet of thick cloud covers much of the country's tropical north, due to a monsoon trough running through the Top End and Cape York Peninsula. Notably thick storm clouds surround embedded tropical lows situated along this trough, present over the central Top End and just inland of the Cooktown coast. A trough extends over the central coast of Queensland, bringing a line of thick clouds to the region. Further south, scattered cloud covers parts of northern New South Wales, being driven by an inland trough, a trough lingers offshore on the south coast producing a line of thunderstorms and streaky cloud. Some mid level cloud is being generated about central parts of the country's west coast by a trough going through the region. Thick low cloud persists over much of the country's southeast coast, the result of moist onshore flow. Scattered cloud drifts over much of Tasmania ahead of an approaching cold front. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.