Year in Pictures: Weather and nature

Every week, our photo editors curate the Week in Pictures series, a collection of some of the most beautiful, moving, vivid, adorable and heartbreaking photos from the last seven days. As part of our Best of 2014 web series, we’ve assembled galleries of some of the best of those snaps. Here’s the most remarkable photos from the storms that rocked us, the disasters we endured, and the natural wonders that stunned us:

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