THE FOUR SEASONS

The Bureau of Meteorology’s calendar educates Australians on the science of weather and brings awareness to the importance of understanding the risks it can bring. Each year hundreds of photographs are submitted and narrowed down to 13 final images.

The winning images from this year’s weather photography competition hail from all parts of the country, from Tasmania to Sydney’s northern beaches, Brisbane city to Channel Country in southwest Queensland; every state and territory’s weather was captured in this year’s calendar.

JANUARY

CIRCULAR RAINBOW OVER LAKE ARGYLE, KUNUNURRA, WA, BY COL LEONHARDT

When Colin Leonhardt captured a full-circle rainbow for the first time back in 2013 over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, little did he know he’d shone a light on an extremely rare phenomenon. “The photo just sat on my website for a year until somebody from NASA contacted me and said they wanted to do a story on it,” he says. I was thinking to myself, ‘Whoopee-do, mate, it’s just a rainbow,’ but then I started researching it and discovered how rare it really was.”