THE Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) has today launched their ‘Weather Photographer of the Year 2019’ and ‘Young Weather Photographer of the Year 2019’ awards competition.
These images from previous years show a range of weather phenomena such as clouds, lightning, rain, fog or snow through to the impact of weather on humans, cities and the natural landscape.
Graham Newman’s ‘Oil Tanker Guanabura hit by Lightning’ was shortlisted for the 2016 competitionGraham NewmanCarlos Balsera’s ‘Reflection Bow’ shows a mountainous region topped with circular rainbowsCarlos BalseraDmitry Demin’s ‘UFO over the Caucasus’ was shortlisted for the 2016 competitionDmitry DeminKevin Juberg’s ‘Magic’ was shortlisted in last year’s competitionSierra BlancoStephen Cheatley’s ‘Electric Blackpool’ shows huge forks of lightning over the town’s Pleasure BeachStephen CheatleyAndrew Bailey’s ‘Freezing Fog and Hoar Frost’ nabbed third place in the awards in 2016Andrew BaileyMerveille Adomou picked up third place in the 17 and over category in 2017 with ‘Frozen Fall’Merveille AdomouCraig Boehm’s ‘Little House on the Praire’ was shortlisted for the award in 2017Craig BoehmThe aptly-named Daniel Winter was shortlisted in 2017 with ‘Rain in the desert’Daniel WinterThe runner-up position in 2016’s over 16 category went to Camelia Czuchnicki with ‘Clash of the Storms’Camelia CzuchnickiNikolay Schegolev picked up second place in the 17 and over category last year with ‘Two times one train station’Nikolay SchegolevGeorgy Akimov was shortlisted last year with ‘The Miracle’, a beautiful photograph showing a patch of rainbow above dozens of sailing boatsg-akimov.comSteve Oldfield’s misty ‘Crosthwaite Church’ photograph was shortlisted in 2017Steve OldfieldRajesh Dhar’s Journey through the fog, an action shot of a man pushing his bicycle through water, was shortlisted last yearRajesh DharPaul Kingston captured this enormous splashing wave, ‘Monster from the Deep’, and was shortlisted in 2017North News and Pictures
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