Australia Weather

A large high pressure system in the Tasman Sea is driving scattered low level cloud and showers onshore across coastal areas of Queensland and northeastern New South Wales. A cold front passing over Tasmania is dragging a band of cloud through all levels of the atmosphere over Tasmania and Victoria. Wispier upper level cloud extends out of this cloud band into southern New South Wales eastern parts of South Australia. A strong disturbance in the upper atmosphere is generating multiple surface troughs and driving a thick blanket of mid to high level cloud over the southern half of Western Australia and across into the South Australian border. Thick embedded storm activity is seen in the interior of the state, closest to the upper disturbance. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.