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THE BRUTALITY AND BEAUTY OF AUSTRALIA'S CHANGING SEASONS


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A bit of Australiana on show...wonderful shots.

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:

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

Bonicelli

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

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April: Majesty and threat - A cumulonimbus with anvil seen beyond wind turbines at Burra, S.A

by photographer Helen Simpson

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

by Steve Strike

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

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Awesome photos. Can anyone else see the hand in the cloud next to the lightning bold in Decembers photo?

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Awesome photos. Can anyone else see the hand in the cloud next to the lightning bold in Decembers photo?

Top left?

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Top left?

No - top centre and right. Oh well, shows it's all in the eye of the beholder!

Love the fact that so many of those pictures were taken in Victoria

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Looks flippen awesome... since I'm planning to make photography my hobby, I hope I'll be able to do some similar shots one day :)

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This is how I saw it on my phone, Freaked me out a bit and I had to look twice.

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@HEOJJ your phone elongated the picture. No wonder I couldn't see it LOL

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@HEOJJ your phone elongated the picture. No wonder I couldn't see it LOL

Freaky what phones do sometimes.

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Or maybe just something you had to see HEOJJ???

Stunning photo's, hubby will love these!

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Wonderful, beautiful photos ! The intensity of the storms is quite intimidating, I must admit !!

In the last photo I see a hand in the top middle, at the left side of the center lightning bolt, 'showing' upwards. I downloaded the photo and put a circle on, but don't know how to post the photo again ! Duh ...

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