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Check out the passage of Sunday’s cold front as it swept across the south eastern states of Australia. Watch how it exploded to life as clashed with the very warm and moist conditions of the Tasman Sea.

A combination of a very cold air mass moving out over a much warmer sea surface resulted in very unstable conditions, triggering intense thunderstorm activity along the system’s boundary.

These type of situations are a common feature of the weather off the NSW coast during the southern hemisphere winter months due to the effects of the eastern Australian current that moves southward along this particular stretch of coastline. Here it’s influence maintains balmy oceanic temps ranging from the low to mid 20s( degree Celsius) even throughout these darker months.