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2014 Review: The most spectacular weather photos of the year

By David Sim David Sim
12/31/14 AT 3:45 PM
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Pictures of the year weather
January 6, 2014: Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach in Chicago, Illinois, as a polar vortex resulted in the coldest temperatures in decades Scott Olson/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
January 8, 2014: The US side of Niagara Falls is partially frozen as the so-called polar vortex tightened its grip on North America, breaking low temperature records Aaron Harris/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
January 16, 2014: Bolts of lightning play around the statue of Christ the Redeemer on top of Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
February 1, 2014: A giant cloud of hot volcanic ash engulfs villages in Karo district during the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano, located on Indonesia's Sumatra island Sutanta Aditya/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
February 3, 2014: A man with a shovel looks at a car completely encased in ice in Postojna, Slovenia Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
February 10, 2014: Workers build flood defences around a house in the flooded village of Moorland near Bridgwater on the Somerset Levels Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
February 16, 2014: Houses in Staines-upon-Thames are inundated with flood water after the River Thames burst its banks Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
March 5, 2014: A large dark storm cloud covers the Sydney central business district Cassie Trotter/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
April 3, 2014: People walk underneath flowering cherry trees on a street in Bonn, Germany Rolf Vennenbernd/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
April 12, 2014: An enormous fire rages through the Chilean city of Valparaiso, destroying at least 2,500 homes, and leaving 11,000 people homeless Alberto Miranda/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
April 28, 2014: A US flag sticks out the window of a damaged hot rod car after a severe tornado destroyed much of the town of Vilonia in Arkansas Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
May 3, 2014: People visit "The Gateway to Hell" – a huge burning gas crater in Turkmenistan's Karakum desert. In 1971 Soviet scientists drilled into an underground cavern and a deep sinkhole formed. Fearing that the crater would emit poisonous gases, they set it alight, thinking that the gas would burn out quickly. But the flames have not gone out in more than 40 years Igor Sasin/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
May 19, 2014: An aerial view shows the flooded town of Obrenovac in northern Serbia during the worst floods in more than a century Alexa Stankovic/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
July 2, 2014: Lightning strikes One World Trade Center in Manhattan as the sun sets behind the city after a summer storm Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
July 8, 2014: European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst took this photo of Super Typhoon Neoguri from the International Space Station. "I have never seen anything like it," he marvelled, "Watch out Japan!" Alexander Gerst/ESA/Nasa
Pictures of the year weather
July 12, 2014: The Supermoon rises over houses in Olvera, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz. Occurring when a full moon coincides with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth, the Supermoon results in a larger-than-usual appearance Jon Nazca/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
August 13, 2014: Visitors run away as waves caused by a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
August 29, 2014: The Northern Lights are captured in this photo taken by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station Alexander Gerst/ESA/Nasa
Pictures of the year weather
September 11, 2014: Pigs are seen trapped in a partially submerged pig pen after heavy rainfall hit Youyang county of Chongqing municipality, China Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
September 14, 2014: A plane flies over the Bardarbunga volcano in southeast Iceland as it spews lava and smoke Bernard Meric/AFP
Pictures of the year weather
September 17, 2014: A firefighter battling the King Fire sprays water on a backfire in Fresh Pond, California Noah Berger/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
September 23, 2014: A Virginia Creeper covering a 15th-century cottage housing a tearoom turns copper red as Autumn arrives in Llanrwst, North Wales Rebecca Naden/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
September 28, 2014: Japanese soldiers and firefighters conduct rescue operations at mountain lodges covered with volcanic ash, on Mt Ontake Kyodo/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
September 30, 2014: The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) shimmer in the sky over a mountain camp near the Norwegian village of Mestervik, north of the Arctic Circle Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
October 8, 2014: Mount Sinabung volcano erupts, as seen from Tiga Pancur village, Karo Regency in Indonesia's North Sumatra province YT Haryono/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
October 8, 2014: Active regions on the sun combine to look like the carved face of a Jack O'Lantern, as Halloween approaches Nasa/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
November 10, 2014: A rainbow arches over Tower Bridge, with one end seemingly in the Tower of London Paul Gilham/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
November 18, 2014: Storm clouds heap snow on Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, where an autumn blizzard dumped a year's worth of snow in three days Lindsay DeDario/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
December 3, 2014: A bench is covered in ice on Buda Hills in Budapest, as freezing rain blanketed the area Bernadett Szabo/Reuters
Pictures of the year weather
December 12, 2014: Homes are covered with rocks and mud after a powerful storm lashed Camarillo in California David McNew/Getty Images
Pictures of the year weather
November 9, 2014: A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia. Scientists have not come to a consensus about the origin of the huge crater yet Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration/Reuters
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