Extreme Weather

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St Jude's Day storm in pictures: Telegraph readers' photographs
St Jude's Day storm in pictures: Telegraph readers' photographs - Telegraph
Tolbachik volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far east. This volcano is one of four that is currently erupting in close proximity to one another.
The ocean overflows the sea wall on Winthrop Shore Drive in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on February 9, 2013. An overnight blizzard left one to two feet of snow in areas, and coastal flooding is expected as the storm lingers into the day. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
A house is engulfed by the storm surge brought about by powerful typhoon Haiyan that hit Legazpi city, Albay province Friday Nov.8, 2013. (AP Photo/Nelson Salting)
a sign? Lightning struck the Vatican not once but TWICE - hours after Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation.
This image released by NASA from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured at 9:01 a.m. on Friday, February 8, 2013 shows a massive winter storm coming together as two low pressure systems merge over the northeast U.S. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday. (AP Photo/NASA0)
Filmmaker Chris Tangey captured rare video footage, a still of which is seen here, of a "fire devil" in the Australian Outback.
Right now, things are pretty hot in Australia. So hot, in fact, that meteorologists Down Under have added new, never-before-used colors to temperature maps in anticipation of record-breaking heat.
A day after the mercury reached 106 degrees Fahrenheit in Melbourne, the extreme heat pushed into Sydney on Friday, leading to the hottest day on record for the capital of New South Wales.
It's almost unimaginable: a tsunami more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) high bearing down on the island of Hawaii.