Cover - Lightning strike, Broome, Western Australia - Kane McLatchie
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The Bureau of Meteorology has unveiled its 2026 Australian Weather Calendar, featuring 13 spectacular weather phenomena captured across the continent by both professional and amateur photographers.
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A panel of senior meteorologists selected the winning images from hundreds of submissions, showcasing diverse weather events, from thunderstorms to rare atmospheric conditions, throughout Australia’s varied climate zones.
“We have photos from Broome in WA, across to the Gold Coast in Queensland, down to Northern Tasmania and inland South Australia,” BoM national community information manager Andrea 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.”
The calendar’s cover features a powerful wet season thunderstorm in Broome, Western Australia, photographed by storm-chaser Kane McLatchie at Entrance Point during the opening storm of the 2024 wet season.
A standout November image by Michelangelo Svrznjak captures a line of thunderstorms in WA from an aerial perspective.
“From the moment we saw it, it was a winner,” Peace said.
“From a meteorologist’s perspective, it is amazing to see the view from above.”
Other notable photographs include Chris Gobbe’s capture of mammatus clouds in Wentworth Falls, NSW, and Sandy Horne’s remarkable shot of multiple dust devils in Wilmington, South Australia.
Each photograph is accompanied by a scientific explanation of the weather phenomenon depicted.
The calendar is available for purchase online at shop.bom.gov.au
July - Thunderstorm, Darwin, Northern Territory - Kym Perrin
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December - Aurora australis, Sorrento, Victoria - Vaughan Laws
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May - Fog, Mount Roland, Tasmania - Andrew Thomas
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February - Mammatus clouds, Wentworth Falls, NSW - Chris Gobbe
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