Australian Satellite/Lightning

Australia Satellite Notes
Cloud over the northern tropics in a trough is generating rain & storms, heaviest in northeast QLD near a deepening low. Cloud over QLD & parts of NSW & WA in other troughs is triggering storms & showers. Cloud over the southeast with a trough is bringing the odd light shower.
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Weather News
Tropical Cyclone spinning up near Cairns
14:01 EDT
A tropical low is deepening off the north Queensland coast, and is likely to become Tropical Cyclone Niran in the near future.
Wet start to autumn in southwest WA
12:58 EDT
Showers and thunderstorms will characterise much of the next week across the South West Land Division with a month's worth of rain possible in some places - accumulating over just a few days.