Australia Weather

A cloud band stretches over central Australia, tending more extensive over southeastern parts of the continent. This is due to a low pressure system over the Investigator strait with an associated upper air disturbance. Low cloud lingers in the wake of this system over southern Western Australia and the remainder of South Australia. Low cloud is also being driven onto parts of the eastern seaboard by an onshore flow due to the pressure gradient between a high over New Zealand and a low near Norfolk Island. Wispy high level cloud stretches from the Northern Territory over much of Queensland, associated with the sub-tropical jet, whilst a cloud band in the Indian Ocean extends more wispy cloud over southwestern Western Australia.