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2010 AUSTRALIAN WEATHER CALENDAR


The photographs

Cover: Cumulus mediocris clouds over Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, as seen from Arthurs Seat, 2.30 pm, August 2007. Picture: BEN ALBRECHT
January: Clouds over Clonbinane, central Victoria, hold the promise of showers or thunderstorms, 7 November 2007, 6.25 pm. The clouds are stratocumulus cumulonimbogenitus (front centre), cumulonimbus capillatus (rear left) and altocumulus (top left). Picture: ROSS KIMBER February: Rain falls at sunset on Paroo Station, Meekatharra, central Western Australia, 1 April 2007, 6.15 pm. The clouds are cumulonimbus praecipitatio. Picture: LOUISE FORD March: A rainbow forms over Victoria Dock and Sullivan’s Cove, Hobart, during pre-frontal showers, 23 February 2008, 4.55 pm. The clouds are nimbostratus praecipitatio. Picture: JAMIE SCUGLIA
April: Sea fog (stratus cloud) blows over Newport Beach, north of Sydney, 18 November 2004, about midday. Picture: JOHN GRAINGER May: Irisation or cloud iridescence amid cumulus cloud at Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, 2 December 2005, 3.30 pm. Picture: PETER OSTRY June: Aurora australis (the Southern Lights) over Casey station, Antarctica, 28 June 2008, 11.27 pm. The green colour is emitted when oxygen atoms in the upper atmosphere are struck by charged particles from the sun. Picture: IOLOVSKI PHOTOGRAPHY
July: A storm front and rain approach yachts anchored at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, on the afternoon of 7 August 2008. The clouds are cumulonimbus with arcus (shelf cloud) and praecipitatio (rain). Picture: TERRY ROSS August: Sun shines through dense smoke over Mt Lindsay, Denmark, southwest Western Australia, April 2004. The smoke was from a fuel-reduction burn. Picture: KADE BOUWMAN September: Floodwaters move through Ourdel Station, Windorah, southwest Queensland, on a February afternoon, 2008. Stratocumulus stratiformis clouds are overhead. Windorah is in the Channel Country, which drains to Lake Eyre. Picture: HELEN COMMENS
October: Mammatus cloud associated with cumulonimbus over Derby airport, northwest Western Australia, at sunset, 9 December 2004, 6 pm. Picture: TERRY ROBINSON, in memory of Maria Elizabeth Robinson November: A thunderstorm front approaches New Brighton Beach, north coast of New South Wales, 30 December 2008, 4.03 pm, with cumulonimbus clouds and stratocumulus extensions in the foreground. Picture: KATHRYN LYNCH December: Lightning under cumulonimbus cloud, Moana Beach, south of Adelaide, 6 December 2005, 1.14 am. Picture: JOHN McDERMOTT
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