Se det som en fantastisk almanacka, se det som en samling fantastiska bilder eller se det som det fantastiska Australien!
This is your Australia
Some pictures are terrifying,some are awe inspiring,all are beautiful.
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.
Here are some of them.
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.
April: Majesty and threat – A cumulonimbus with anvil seen beyond wind turbines at Burra, SA by photographer Helen Simpson.
July: A squall line associated with a thunderstorm over Era Beach,south of Garie,Royal National Park NSW,by photographer Bruce Cooper.
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.
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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