Australia Weather

A band 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, as well as offshore of both the Cooktown and Pilbara coasts. A trough extends along the coast of Queensland, generating coastal convective clouds. Patchy low cloud sweeps over much of the country's east coast, the result of moist onshore flow from the east. A cold front is moving across Tasmania, bringing an arm of thick cloud to most parts of the state. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.