A series of low pressure systems and associated troughs are generating areas of thick cloud with embedded thunderstorms across the north of Australia. A thick band of low to high level cloud is present over southeastern Western Australia and southern South Australia as an upper cold pool resides over the region. A high pressure system in the Southern Ocean is directing patchy low level cloud onto the southern coast of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. A trough moving up the east coast is bringing patchy low to mid level cloud to south east Queensland and inland Queensland. A moist airmass in its wake is also generating banks of low level cloud across the northeastern coast of the New South Wales. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.