Weather Photographer of the Year 2020 shortlist

Shortlist announced and public vote now open

The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), in association with AccuWeather, has announced the 26 finalists for this year’s ‘Weather Photographer of the Year 2020’, which will now be put to a public vote.

To see the shortlisted images and vote for your favourite, visit photocrowd.com/wpotyvote.

The vote is open from 21 August and closes 25 September at midnight (BST).

Frosty Bison
Lightning over Sa Foradada in Mallorca, Spain
Brooklyn Bridge in a blizzard
Lake Baikal Ice
Tea Hills in Vietnam
Lavaredo’s Gloria
A panoramic shot from Meall Nan Tarmachan in fog with a fog bow and Broken Spectre
Pinnacles of Light
Lunar Halo in Mogilev, Belarus
Predawn Thunderstorm over El Paso, Texas
Skyscraper shrouded in morning fog
Waterloo Station in London with the rain pouring down
Cell with Rainbow
Mammatus cloud outbreak
Winter sunset
El Chalten
A full rainbow behind the semi feral ponies of Cefn Bryn common, Swansea
Water cascades down the dam wall of Wet Sleddale reservoir near Shap in Cumbria
Winter scene of white trees and fog
A large, dust-filled tornado turns across an open field in Wray, Colorado
A small tornado enters the tents of a number of villagers and lifts them into the sky
A few seconds before the hail in Dyrholaey, Iceland
Monster shelf cloud
drought in Bangladesh
Final Stand
Dream