These images, showing the elements at their wildest and most magnificent, have been released in a new calendar.
Each year the Bureau of Meteorology and Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society organizes 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
February: A thunderstorm sweeps over the Melbourne suburb of Carrum Downs, captured by Flavio Bonicelli
March: Sunset highlights streets of stratocumulus over Buninyong, central Victoria by Keith Day
April: Majesty and threat - A cumulonimbus with anvil seen beyond wind turbines at Burra, SA by photographer Helen Simpson
May: Ship in sea fog off McCrae, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, by photographer Meredith Banhidi
June: In the wake of a thunderstorm, hail blankets paddocks at Marong, Victoria by John Allen
July: A squall line associated with a thunderstorm over Era Beach, south of Sydney by photographer Bruce Cooper
August: The ethereal beauty of a mist bow and fog at Mount Anne in Tasmania by Grant Dixon
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
October: A thunderstorm threatens the Gold Coast, Queensland by photographer Ann Van Breemen
November: The shadows of cumulus clouds dapple the parallel dunes of the Simpson Desert by Steve Strike
December: Lightning illuminates a cumulonimbus cloud over Corio Bay, Victoria by James Collier
Beautiful and potentially deadly if you're in the wrong place!
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