Danube Breathtaking imagery) Australian calendar ... [take two]

 

 

This calendar for Australia shows the elements at their wildest and most magnificent.

Each  year the Bureau of Meteorology and Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society organizes 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 Titmani.           

 

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,  S.A by photographer Helen Simpson.

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

 

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 Collie.

 

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