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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.

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 Garie,Royal National Park NSW,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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