Australia Weather

Scattered thick cloud with embedded thunderstorm activity covers much of the country's tropical north. A thick band of upper level cloud with embedded storm resulting from this tropical activity extends further south, covering much of central Australia. Along the central through northern coast of Queensland, onshore trade wind flow is bringing low through high level cloud with embedded thunderstorms onshore. Thick low level cloud is being drawn over the southern coast of Western Australia by a high pressure ridge stretching along the southwestern coast of Australia. A cold front over Tasmania is driving a band of low cloud over Tasmania. A prefrontal trough is drawing low level cloud over the southern coast of Victoria. An upper trough is driving streaky high level cloud over northern Victoria and southern New South Wales. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.