From A Week of Tornadoes, one of 25 photos. Lightning from a tornadic thunderstorm passing over Clearwater, Kansas strikes in an open field, on May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. (Reuters/Gene Blevins)
From Northeast Slammed by Blizzard, one of 28 photos. Ice clings to Ken Anderson’s eyebrows and mustache as he uses a snowblower during a blizzard, on February 9, 2013, in Portland, Maine. The storm dumped more than 30 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon, breaking the local record for the biggest storm. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
From Chicago’s Freezing Fire, one of 16 photos. A truck is covered in ice as firefighters work to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Illinois, on January 23, 2013. More than 200 firefighters battled the five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
From Summer Down Under, one of 31 photos. A white shelf cloud caps brownish dirt from a dust storm, or haboob, as it travels across the Indian Ocean near Onslow on the Western Australia coast in this handout image distributed by fishwrecked.com and taken January 9, 2013. (Reuters/Brett Martin/fishwrecked.com)
From Wintry Weather, one of 34 photos. Frost covers the tips of a woman’s hair as she shields her face while facing the abnormally freezing outdoors in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, about 2,800 km east of Moscow, on December 14, 2012. The temperatures in Novosibirsk had dropped to -35C (-31F). (Valery Titievsky/AFP/Getty Images)
From Lightning Strikes, one of 24 photos. Here, lightning pierces a dark sky above buildings in central Shanghai during a storm on August 15, 2012. (Reuters/Aly Song)
From Deep Freeze Spreads Across Europe, one of 40 photos. Here, a boy sits in front of an ice covered car in Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland, on February 5, 2012. Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday and brought widespread disruption to transport services, with warnings that the chilling temperatures would remain into next week. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
