Australia Weather

A thick cloud band associated with an upper level trough extends over much of southwestern Queensland, the New South Wales and South Australia border, and into western Victoria. A cold front over southwestern Western Australia is bringing low to mid level cloud to the region. A prefrontal trough to the east of the cold front extends off the northwest coast of Western Australia into the Indian Ocean, is streaming high level cloud over western and southern parts of the state. A strong high pressure system south of Tasmania is drawing thick low level cloud over most of the state. This high is also bringing low level cloud over majority of the eastern seaboard. A trough off the southeast to central coast of New South Wales is forcing convergence of the strong southeasterly winds from the high into showers over coastal fringes of the Illawarra district. The rest of the country is mostly cloud free.