Thirteen winning images were selected from more than 800 entries in the  photographic competition. 

Last year a photo by former Mount Isa photographer Rosyln Budd featured in the calendar, but this year there is only one from Queensland.

The popular not-for-profit calendar has been published jointly by BOM and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society since 1985, with annual sales of 60,000 across more than 80 countries worldwide. 

The prestigious cover shot is of a dandelion sparkling with frost, taken in Kambah in the Australian Capital Territory. 

Other photographs inside  include a radiant aurora australis at Coles Bay, Tasmania; a funnel cloud near Cooma, New South Wales; a rainstorm over the Kennedy Range, Western Australia, creeping desert fog near Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre, South Australia, an apocalyptic roll cloud at sea taken during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race; an unusual bird-shaped cloud over Mount Macedon, Victoria; a spectacular storm front over Darwin and towering cumulonimbus clouds near Warwick, Queensland. 

The winning images have been taken with a variety of cameras, from an iPhone held out of a moving car to high-grade professional equipment. 

The  calendar  is available through Bureau of Meteorology Mount Isa field office manager Scott Adams (S.Adams@bom.gov.au) or  available at shop.bom.gov.au. 

For more information visit www.bom.gov.au/calendar.