Several people were hurt on Sunday when a large tornado struck Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Official said the tornado went right through a main street in town. But miraculously, no one was killed.
Tornado chasers were out trying to film the storm and with a twister that size, it was easy to spot.
Take a look at some dramatic video of the tornado as it came into the town:
Many of you have seen videos of the incredible amounts of snow that fell across New England on Friday night.
But videographer Brian Maffitt of Chestnut Ridge, NY did something a little different with the snow -- he stuck a video projector out the window and filmed how the snow interacted with the multitude of projected colors.
"I've been experimenting with long exposures and low-light photography for years," Maffitt wrote to me in an email after asking about his project. "When I was stuck inside during last weekend's blizzard in the northeast, I decided to try something I've been thinking about for a long time, taking long exposures of a snowfall."
He said he had tried using flashlights before to no avail.
"I decided to point an old video projector out into the snow and see what sort of color effects I could produce," he said.
The result was as amazing as it was beautiful. In short, it was creative genius:
On Friday, we showed what 30 inches of snow in a day might look like, using a 2010 storm in D.C. for reference.
Now that the blizzard has come and gone in New England, we have some actual -- and pretty incredible -- time lapse videos of the storm's accumulations. Most areas shown had between 20-30 inches.
The blizzard forecasts for New England are pretty dire and seem to keep trending a bit worse -- 1 feet, 2 feet, now 3 feet of snow in some places with wind gusts of 55-75 mph.
That kind of storm is well beyond anything the Willamette Valley area has experienced in decades. So I think it's safe to say a 24-30 inch forecast of snow would be a bit hard to fathom for the locals who have never lived in a place that's had severe blizzards before.
I can only hope this poor lighthouse at the end of the harbor in Seaham, England was unmanned.
Or at least had very strong windows.
Astronomers are crossing their fingers that recently-discovered comet could put on a celestial show of the ages later this year.
If all goes right, Comet ISON could be so bright, it would rival a full moon at night and could even be visible during daylight.
But that is a big "if".
A Canadian software company is teaming up with the University of Washington to help turn your smart phone into a valuable tool for helping meteorologists predict the weather.
The company, Cumulonimbus, is utilizing the atmospheric pressure sensor found in some Android phones and tablets and collecting that data to get an incredibly detailed plot of current barometric pressure across the planet.
Right now, meteorologists rely on a handful of sporadic weather stations -- mainly government run -- across the nation to create surface plots of current weather and to input into computer models. It works well, but there are large geographic gaps in the data.
I know the mountains are hard to find amid the persistent low winter overcasts but when they finally peer out from behind their atmospheric curtain, they really get to show off their beauty.
And Don Jensen has spent the past proving it.
He's spanned the Cascades snapping over 11,000 photos and converted them into awe-inspiring time lapse videos that take the viewer on a virtual tour of the wonders of Washington State.
Chicago firefighters had their hands full already battling a huge warehouse fire in the city's South Side Tuesday night. But imagine trying to spray water on a blaze when temperatures are closer to 0 than freezing.
The temperature was 10 degrees during the fire, part of an arctic outbreak gripping much of the upper Midwest.. Water was freezing to hoses, hydrants -- even the firefighters' uniforms.
Tyler Mode of Battle Ground, Wash. is an avid hiker, a great photographer and a self-professed weather geek.
So when he saw perfect inversion conditions on Wednesday, he knew it'd be a great day to go for a hike, get above the chilly fog layer and bask in some 54 degree sunshine.
And perhaps make it a teachable lesson about inversions and snap a few amazing photographs along the way.
It's the second-most frequent question I get in the weather email box: "What's the difference between a watch and a warning?"
It was enough that I finally wrote an entire blog entry breaking down what the various National Weather Service terms mean so I could just send an email link.
In the current system, for those who don't want to click the hyperlink above, a "Watch" is usually issued 24-48 hours ahead of an approaching event and means conditions are possible, but not a slam dunk. As the event nears, it will get converted to a Warning (severe conditions are imminent or happening) or an Advisory (less severe conditions are imminent or occurring).
I'm sure quite a few people around here note the winter chill with something along the lines of "ugh" but Angela Kelly now views the days as an opportunity.
She has recently become quite adept at finding amazing beauty the melting morning frost leaves behind in nature.
Fresh off her November gallery of finding raindrops on spider webs she's expanded a bit to include plants and flora.
From the Northern Lights, to supercell thunderstorms, to a baseball diamond tarp that transformed into a raging monster set to devour a member of a minor league team's grounds crew, Mother Nature has been quite busy in 2012.
I've gone back and compiled some of what I think are the most stunning photos and videos that I've featured in the weather blog over the past year.
While the photo gallery (at left) and the videos below showcase events that spanned the globe, a good number of what's featured happened in the Pacific Northwest.
Which one was your favorite?
Nothing can make you appreciate the power of Mother Nature than to watch a tornado go right down the street.
Surveillance video from a Walgreen store in Mobile, Ala. captured a tornado that went right by the store.