Australian Infrared (b/w) Satellite/Lightning
Australia Satellite Notes
Cloud scattered across TAS, southern VIC and southeastern NSW with a weak front is bringing light showers. Cloud bubbling up over QLD, inland WA and the NT Top End in a broad trough are generating thunderstorms. Cloud in southwest WA in another trough is causing a few storms.
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