Dramatic thunderstorms, curious cloud formations, atmospheric fog and spinning dust devils are some of the diverse weather featured in the Bureau of Meteorology's 2026 Australian Weather Calendar.
A judging panel including senior meteorologists have chosen 13 images submitted during the Bureau's yearly calendar competition which show the breadth of weather experienced across Australia.
Captured by both professional and hobby photographers, this year's calendar showcases photographs taken across the country.
Every photo featured in the calendar sits beside a meteorological description of the particular weather phenomenon shown, giving the scientific explanation behind the weather.
Bureau of Meteorology National Community Information Manager Andrea Peace said the 2026 Australian Weather Calendar highlighted the beauty of Australia's weather throughout the country's many climate zones.
"We have photos from Broome in WA, across to the Gold Coast in Queensland, down to northern Tasmania and inland South Australia," Ms. Peace said.
"This year, as always, judging the submissions to the calendar competition was a tough task with the hundreds of spectacular photos we receive."
Ms Peace said one of her standout images in the calendar is the November photo taken by Michelangelo Svrznjak of a line of thunderstorms in WA captured at a bird's eye view from an aeroplane.
"It had all the judges immediately hooked," Ms Peace said. "From the moment we saw it, it was a winner."
"From a meteorologist's perspective, it is amazing to see the view from above. We can see what is happening from the ground and on the radar, but to have this perspective is something special."
Thunderstorms, east south east of Perth, WA by Michelangelo Svrznjak is November's photo.
Storms feature again on the calendar's cover photo which captures the power of severe thunderstorms during the wet season in Broome, Western Australia.
Storm-chaser Kane McLatchie photographed the opening storm of the 2024 wet season at Entrance Point after watching it approach the coastline on the BOM Weather App in the early hours of the morning.
Wet season conditions bring together all the key ingredients for a thunderstorm's cumulonimbus cloud to form, and the ensuing light show made for electric photography.
This year's edition features some opportunistic images of fleeting weather not always widely seen.
The February image shows the distinctive rounded pouches of mammatus clouds, captured by Chris Gobbe in Wentworth Falls, NSW.
While most clouds develop from upwards motion, mammatus clouds form as cool air sinks from the higher parts of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud, forming into their recognisable shapes.
A group of whirling dust devils captured in Wilmington, South Australia by hobby photographer Sandy Horne feature as the August image.
These spinning columns of air are short-lived phenomena resulting from uneven solar heating of the ground.
Dust devils dissipate when they run out of warm air, or suck in cooler air - in this case photographer Sandy Horne was lucky to capture so many in one frame.
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