December 20, 2020 – The 13 winners of the incredibly popular World Meteorological Organization annual competition have just been announced, and two fine pieces of Croatia weather photography are among them. These spectacular images of Croatia weather photography show all 9 Croatian photographs which reached the final in 2020 and all 10 Croatian finalists who similarly stunned the global audience in 2019
Croatia weather photography: the two newly announced winners from the 2020 competition
Photographer: Sandro Puncet Photo taken: Losinj island
Photographer: Zrinka Balabanic Photo taken: Pag island
Thanks to its popularity as a tourist destination, lots of people are now used to seeing beautiful photos of Croatia. Although, the images they usually see are of idyllic beaches, cloudless skies, stunning nature and turquoise blue seas. But, as anyone who knows the country will tell you - and as these photos show - Croatia isn't always like that.
Croatia weather photography: the two newly announced runners-up from the 2020 competition
Photographer: Šime Barešić Photo taken: Drage, Pakostane
Photographer: Mislav Bilic Photo taken: Lapad Peninsula, Dubrovnik
Out of season, Croatia can experience vastly different weather conditions to those advertised in travel brochures and blogs. And, whenever there's a spectacular weather occurrence, usually there's a photographer out there, braving the elements, trying to capture it.
Over recent years, some of the best Croatia weather photography has featured in the annual competition organised by the World Meteorological Organization. 2020 has been no different.
The other five Croatian finalists from the 2020 competition
Photographer: Šime Barešić Photo taken: Drage, Pakostane
Photographer: Sandro Puncet Photo taken: Losinj island
Photographer: Zoran Stanko Photo taken: Geisler Alm, Dolomites, Italy
Photographer: Maja Kraljik Photo taken: Umag, Istria
Photographer: Igor Popovic Photo taken: Rijeka
The winners of this year's competition have just been announced and the two fantastic examples of Croatia weather photography within the top 13 will take their place in the 2021 World Meteorological Organization calendar.
The 10 Croatian finalists from the 2019 competition
Photographer: Danica Sičič Photo taken: Srobreč, Dalmatia
Photographer: Romeo Ibrišević Photo taken: Plitvice Lakes National Park
Photographer: Božan Štambuk Photo taken: Bundek park, Zagreb
Photographer: Miroslava Novak Photo taken: Pribislavec, Međimurje
As well as the two winners, two further examples of Croatia weather photography came in the runner-up category, of which there were 12 in total.
Photographer: Francesca Delbianco Photo taken: Zagreb
Photographer: Ivica Brlić Photo taken: Sava river, Davor, near Slavonski Brod
Photographer: Nataša Šafar Photo taken: Rečica, near Karlovac
Photographer: Romeo Ibrišević Photo taken: Plitvice Lakes National Park
Over 1000 photographs from all over the world were entered in the 2020 competition. The submissions were narrowed down to a final selection of 70 contenders. As TCN reported back at the start of October, no less than 9 examples of Croatia weather photography made it into the final 70, taken by 7 Croatian photographers.
Photographer: Danijel Palčić Photo taken: Pag island
Photographer: Aleksandar Gospic Photo taken: Ražanac
Croatia regularly punches well above its weight in the annual competition, as we can see from these 10 examples of incredible Croatia weather photography that were among the finalists in 2019.
All images courtesy World Meteorological Organisation
