Extreme Weather Of The Week (PHOTOS)

In Australia this week, flooding forced four Queensland coal mines to close and a northern New South Wales town was split in half. One resident told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "We woke up this morning with wallabies, kangaroos, an echidna and a koala sitting in the trees, so I think everything is headed to any little bit of high ground they can."

A deadly avalanche in Japan has caused several deaths and left some areas with twice as much snow as normal, according to the Associated Press. Snow has reportedly caused 56 deaths and over 750 injuries since November.

Heavy snow has also hit Colorado, closing roads across the state. According to AP, "The storm forced the cancellation of more than 150 arriving and departing flights at the Denver airport that had been scheduled through Friday night."

Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex were relieved week when officials declared the area "officialy out of drought for the first time since July, making it Texas' first major metropolitan area to emerge from the most severe one-year drought in state history," according to the Associated Press.

Elsewhere in Texas, a town near Austin received its first 8,000-gallon water delivery Monday. Spicewood's wells can "no longer produce enough water to meet the needs of the Lake Travis community's 1,100 residents and elementary school."

Below, check out images from wild and extreme weather events around the world this week.

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[pistol13]

04:52 PM on 02/05/2012

Better check out the weather in Europe. Cold, freezing and snowy. Global warming? East Anglia Univ. weather Dept thinks not. They have 30,000 areas around the globe that measure temp. According to their measurements, the warming trend stopped about 9 years ago. In fact they are making noises about a new mini-ice age. Good article at Newsmax.com for those REALLY interested in facts not "Inconvenient" lies. The truth is out there, but you have to be willing to read it. I've read the alarmists side. Can they do the same?

[Bryan Rae]

12:23 PM on 02/05/2012

hello

[PashaRu]

01:28 AM on 02/05/2012

I'm in Moscow. It's 9° this morning. That's the warmest it's been in almost two weeks. Four days ago it was -15°. Yesterday I walked to the post office in -7°. We've have mostly below zero temps for 10-12 days. Nobody's complaining. It's normal winter weather here.

[bdmb4]

12:39 AM on 02/05/2012

Global warming is going on, that's for sure. But than so has warm and cold ages been going on since the formation of the planet.

[aliciaannmecum]

06:18 PM on 02/04/2012

Gorgeous evening in the North Georgia mtns cloudy, misty, foggy.

[iwoorikhj]

10:33 PM on 02/04/2012

is a crisp frosty night here with a moonlight that is like a light,,,,far from the norm,as it should have snow.

[Jtt]

05:51 PM on 02/04/2012

Then records in the US (pretty much been like this all season ( http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html ) :

High Temperatures: 567
Low Temperatures: 11
Lowest Max Temperatures: 9
Highest Min Temperatures: 574

[Jtt]

05:48 PM on 02/04/2012

So all in all since the 27th of Jan we had the coldest winter weather in six years in Ukraine, So to the denialsists that means GW is over. Well lets look at the bigger picture. ( http://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2012/feb2_anom.png )

Marvelous eh?

[idontcare761]

04:35 PM on 02/04/2012

I was wondering where winter had gotten to , now I see.

[Robert Brooks]

03:19 PM on 02/04/2012

Cyclical climate change is all it is. Been 60's in the mid atlantic for the most part of winter where as Denver and other places are getting record snows. Who knows, the east coast may get burried next year and they're surfing down the slopes in Colorado.

[Jtt]

05:45 PM on 02/04/2012

Incorrect. Global temperature. Trends in weather events. Not weather events.

[juststeve35]

02:39 PM on 02/04/2012

Is this where a comment of 'Global Warming my Arse' receives a reply that:

Global Warming leads to weather extremes including more cold and snow?

I find that response to convenient it's almost disgusting...

[jbjg24m]

02:01 PM on 02/04/2012

i hate snow !

[yj289]

02:31 PM on 02/04/2012

I love snow. I hate people who can't function it.

[idontcare761]

04:37 PM on 02/04/2012

I love snow too! I just don't live where it ever snows.

[jbjg24m]

05:58 PM on 02/04/2012

must have a lot of ppl that u hate then

[ttaylorssm]

02:41 PM on 02/04/2012

Me too and I am sitting in about 5 ft. of it in alaska! yuck!

[sir winston]

04:27 PM on 02/04/2012

Snow is beautiful,been there done that.I'll take central florida's weather.It's around 80 here now.

[ozzy12450]

11:02 AM on 02/04/2012

I guess saying Global warming would stir up a hornets nest.

[Jtt]

05:53 PM on 02/04/2012

Actually as there is also a substantial warm anomaly occurring over the arctic during this - it would probably be correct.

[Maverickpower]

01:22 AM on 02/04/2012

if they had to "deliver" my water , I would leave so fast !!! Scary !!

[Bill Hummel]

02:59 AM on 02/05/2012

lOT DELIVER THEIR WATER,