Extreme Weather Of The Week (PHOTOS)

The Pacific Northwest region of the United States was no stranger to extreme weather this week. Although the blizzard of up to 14 inches that was originally forecasted didn't hit, snow still caused closures and delays.

Areas in and around Seattle received several inches of snow and saw traffic accidents and delays from sloppy roads and downed trees.

Snow began falling in Chicago on Friday, with eight inches expected. Highway crews had several hundred plows ready to combat traffic delays and clogged roadways.

New York City will likely get its turn to deal with snow this weekend. As of Friday, the first major snowstorm of the winter was expected to drop three to six inches across the New York metropolitan area.

On Thursday, government scientists announced that 2011 was the 11th hottest year on record. Temperatures in 2011 were 0.9 degrees higher than the 20th century average. According to the Associated Press, 2011 was hotter than every year in the 20th century except 1998.

Check out some of the wildest and most extreme weather pictures from around the world this week and see how they compare to your city.

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Comments

[baxtron]

02:05 PM on 01/26/2012

Extreme weather is 54 degrees in MN with no snow on the ground on Jan. 10th 2012.

[hellyon3too]

10:20 PM on 01/21/2012

This is extreme weather? NOT! Four feet of snow in a 24 hour period is extreme weather. A deracho in Michigan is extreme weather. The Murphysboro, Il tornado of 1925 was extreme weather. A double rainbow or 8 inches of snow it Washington state is not extreme weather.

[msdrtmover]

07:23 PM on 01/21/2012

We have double rainbows here in the Tampa area all the time!

[TWS3121944]

02:08 PM on 01/21/2012

They say all that snow is caused by global warming. I remember beck in the 1950s when I was a kid, we had a 36" snowfall on the High Plains of Texas. We had a terrible time with global warming that day.

[myngbl]

08:05 PM on 01/21/2012

Global warming is such crappolla.

[myngbl]

08:06 PM on 01/21/2012

Ask any people who are family farmers from way back, look at the Almanac. Cycles. There is not an 'ice age' in NYC any longer?!?

[TWS3121944]

02:39 PM on 01/23/2012

I have been around for a long time. Climate always changes, and it always has, but believe in God and his word, and you will have no worries. The bible says that heat and cold (the seasons) will never cease until the end of the world at which time all things on earth will cease by fire.

[Annette Hammond]

02:01 PM on 01/21/2012

Double rainbows are not that rare.Iv'e seen plenty.Plus in 1995 i took a picture of one outside my back window.

[travelingblogger]

03:31 PM on 01/21/2012

Agreed. When I lived in SW Colorado by the dam in the early 1990's, double and triple rainbows were nothing unusual. I finally stopped taking pictures of them after a couple of years because they were so common.

[myngbl]

10:17 AM on 01/21/2012

saw two full-on double rainbows in my life. One in NYC and one in Park City, Ut.

[dolphins1441]

10:56 AM on 01/21/2012

A unicorn farted that's why! It's a nasty habit of theirs.

[myngbl]

11:52 AM on 01/21/2012

dolphins, unicorns, farts; tell your mom you cannot play with her computer any longer.

[FRICKINA]

10:42 PM on 01/20/2012

I am one of those old folks with just a moderate view of the internet and as I attempted to check out the controversial photos of famous figures...I NEVER FOUND OUT WHERE TO CLICK TO SEE!

[Richard Morabito]

07:40 PM on 01/21/2012

You are not that old!!!!!!---richjazzman thinks your cool{now that"s an old word]

[FRICKINA]

07:25 PM on 02/05/2012

groovey was my favorite