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Stormy week in fast-forward review

It's been an amazing week, which kicked off with thunderstorms and large hail last Friday, and then four wind storms Sunday night through Thursday.

As you might imagine, the skies were dancing quite a bit with all the wind and rain, so I compiled some of the best time lapse videos of the week. Maybe find your iPod and crank up some tunes in your ear buds as you watch the days go by :)

Per usual, these are from Dr. Dale Ireland in Silverdale and the UW Atmospheric Sciences Building.

November 12: (Silverdale:)

iPhones: Great for games, not so good in wind storms

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... meteor?

Leonid Meteors, in case you missed it

No other way to headline it: Cute Penguin Alert!

Our resident photographer Jeff Fogg (of Issaquah) who is working at Antarctica's McMurdo Station continues to send some great photos from way down under.

This past week, the Emperor Penguins have begun to show up and boy are they beautiful. Here are some other photos:

Cloudy with a chance of...fractals?

Dude! The sunrise this morning was totally tubular!

Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro

WASHINGTON (AP) - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone.

The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report.

Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007.

If current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said.

Strange, and not so strange, clouds return to skies

Maybe it's just Mother Nature getting in the Halloween spirit.

A new video making the rounds on the Internet shows a spooky looking cloud over Romania:

Mars has tattoos?

This might look like some fancy print for an expensive couch or maybe the aftermath after your basketball got away from you and rolled across a bed of hot coals (because, we all keep those handy near playgrounds), but this is actually a photo of Mars.

More specifically, a part of Mars that has been dogged by their version of dust devils.