Australian Satellite/Lightning

Australia Satellite Notes
Thick cloud over northern QLD with a trough & TC Niran is causing heavy rain & storms. Cloud over WA in a trough is generating showers & storms. Cloud about southeast QLD & northeast NSW near a trough is triggering showers & storms. Onshore winds are bringing showers to TAS.
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Weather News
Severe storms hitting WA
15:51 EDT
A mass of tropical air is plunging over Western Australia today, causing heavy rain and severe thunderstorms across the state's western and southwestern inland.
Tropical Cyclone Niran update
12:02 EDT
Northern Queensland is being spared from the worst impacts of Tropical Cyclone Niran as the system gains strength just a few hundred kilometres from Cairns.