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2009 AUSTRALIAN WEATHER CALENDAR


The photographs

Cover, 2009 Australian Weather Calendar. A turbulent summer sky in the Melbourne suburb of Parkdale, 20 January 2006, 8pm, featuring Cumulus congestus and Cumulonimbus capillatus with incus (anvil) and praecipitatio (rain). Photograph: KEN HAYES
January: Sunset over the Perry Sandhills near Wentworth, south-west NSW, 8 April 2007, featuring clouds of Cirrus spissatus (thick) and Cirrus uncinus (hooks and tufts). Photograph: KEN HAYES February: Rain clouds bring relief to Currawong, near Mitchell, outback Queensland, after a burn-off, 7 January 2004, 4pm. The clouds are Cumulonimbus, Stratus fractus and Cumulus congestus. Photograph: MERV PHILLIPS March: A storm front crosses Cable Beach, Broome, north-west Western Australia, 16 March 2008, 4pm, featuring Cumulonimbus capillatus with incus (anvil) and mammatus clouds. Photograph: WARREN ARMSTRONG PHOTOGRAPHY
April: Lightning over Darwin, Northern Territory, 23 January 2008, 10.40pm, with Cumulonimbus and Stratus fractus clouds. Photograph: ROWLAND BEARDSELL May: Fog (stratus cloud at ground level) settles over the trees in St Georges Square, Launceston, northern Tasmania, 18 June 2005, 10.30am. Photograph: MAT DOUBLE June: Orographic stratus cloud (influenced by katabatic wind) and Cirrus fibratus cloud over Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula, 23 February 2006, 7.30am. Photograph: MARGARET BROWN
July: Hoar frost on a fence along Rifle Butts Road, south of Mansfield, north-east Victoria, 24 June 2007, 8.45am. Photograph: MARG MOLONEY August: Cumulonimbus cloud with tuba (water spout) just off Boat Harbour, north-west Tasmania, 26 August 2006, as seen from the air. Picture: MARTIN EADIE September: Primary and secondary rainbows over a field of canola, Wellington, central NSW, 8 September 2007, 4.50pm. Photograph: ILYA GENKIN
October: Flooding in the back paddocks of Marylyn, the Peak Hill district of central NSW, 25 November 2005, 9am, with Cumulus humilis and incus (anvil) from Cumulonimbus capillatus cloud. Photograph: ANNA UNGER November: Cumulonimbus cloud with arcus (shelf cloud) and praecipitatio (rain) outside Newcastle harbour, NSW, looking south from Merewether, 11 December 2004, 5.54pm. Photograph: MAT KEKEVSKI December: Dust storm at Numery Station, 200 kilometres east of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 2005. Photograph: DANIELLE BRAITLING
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