A moist easterly airstream in combination with a surface trough over western Queensland is generating a broad area of low to high level cloud over eastern Australia with some isolated thunderstorms in Queensland and western New South Wales. A trough and heat low through the tropical north has assisted the development of low to mid level cloud and scattered thunderstorms over the Kimberly and Top End. Patchy high level cloud is visible over parts of central Western Australia. Low cloud is also present about the west and southwestern coasts of the state ahead of an approaching cold front.