A low and its associated trough is generating areas of thick cloud with embedded thunderstorms across the north of Australia. Broad areas of patchy low level cloud are visible across Tasmania and southern Victoria in the wake of a cold front that has moved eastward into the Tasman Sea. A thick band of low to high level cloud is present over southeastern Western 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 and South Australia. A trough over inland Queensland is generating patchy low to mid level cloud in the interior of the state. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.