Tuesday, March 4, 2014

12 Months of Australian Land & Skyscape Photos

These images, showing the elements at their wildest and most magnificent, have been released in a new calendar.

Each year the Bureau of Meteorology and Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society organises a competition for the best weather pictures


 January: An electrical storm perfectly complements fireworks launched to mark Australia Day 2012 celebrations in Perth , in a stunning shot by Matthew Titmanis





 February: A thunderstorm sweeps over the Melbourne suburb of Carrum Downs, captured by Flavio Bonicelli



 March: Sunset highlights streets of stratocumulus over Buninyong, central Victoria by Keith Day



 April: Majesty and threat - A cumulonimbus with anvil seen beyond wind turbines at Burra, SA by photographer Helen Simpson



May: Ship in sea fog off McCrae, Port Phillip Bay , Victoria , by photographer Meredith Banhidi




 June: In the wake of a thunderstorm, hail blankets paddocks at Marong , Victoria by John Allen



 July: A squall line associated with a thunderstorm over Era Beach , south of Sydney by photographer Bruce Cooper



 August: The ethereal beauty of a mist bow and fog at Mount Anne in Tasmania by Grant Dixon



 September: A massive dust storm rolls over the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia , in this stunning photograph by Peter MacDonald



 October: A thunderstorm threatens the Gold Coast, Queensland by photographer Ann Van Breemen



 November: The shadows of cumulus clouds dapple the parallel dunes of the Simpson Desert by Steve Strike




December: Lightning illuminates a cumulonimbus cloud over Corio Bay , Victoria by James Collier 




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