18 Photos from 2021 Proving Mother Nature Is Both Beauty, and the Beast

zachnading Published 12/28/2021 in ouch

Mother nature put us through the ringer this past year. We were graced with flooding, freezing cold temperatures, tornados, scalding hot temperatures and everything in between.

Thanks to the weather channel, we've collected some of the most incredible photos from a wild year on planet earth.

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Lunar eclipse from Washington D.C.

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images
2.
Flooding caused by heavy rains in Mumbai

Ashish Vaishnav/Sopal Images
3.
Alabama flooding.

Butch Dill/AP Photo
4.
Damage caused by Hurricane Ida.

David J. Phillip/AP Photo
5.
Llanerch Bridge in the U.K. wiped out by flood waters.

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
6.
Lava reaches a pool in Spain.

Europa Press via AP Photo
7.
California wildfires.

Noah Berger/AP Photo
8.
A train stuck in debris after flooding in Austria.

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9.
Fire tornado in California.

David McNew/Getty Images
10.
Dixie fire aftermath.

Josh Edelson/Getty Images
11.
Russia's extreme cold.

Maria Passer/Getty Images
12.
Candle factory wreckage caused by a Tornado in Kentucky.

John Amis/Getty Images
13.
A heat wave in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ethan Miller/Getty Images
14.
A burned-out redwood tree.

Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo
15.
California landslide.

Noah Berger/AP Photo
16.
Ice caps retreating in Greenland.

Ulrik Pedersen/Nur Photo
17.
Texan woman melts snow to flush toilet after historically cold temperatures.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images
18.
Burned out car in Greenville, California

Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images

1.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images

Lunar eclipse from Washington D.C.
2.
Ashish Vaishnav/Sopal Images

Flooding caused by heavy rains in Mumbai
3.
Butch Dill/AP Photo

Alabama flooding.
4.
David J. Phillip/AP Photo

Damage caused by Hurricane Ida.
5.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Llanerch Bridge in the U.K. wiped out by flood waters.
6.
Europa Press via AP Photo

Lava reaches a pool in Spain.
7.
Noah Berger/AP Photo

California wildfires.
8.
Getty Images

A train stuck in debris after flooding in Austria.
9.
David McNew/Getty Images

Fire tornado in California.
10.
Josh Edelson/Getty Images

Dixie fire aftermath.
11.
Maria Passer/Getty Images

Russia's extreme cold.
12.
John Amis/Getty Images

Candle factory wreckage caused by a Tornado in Kentucky.
13.
Ethan Miller/Getty Images

A heat wave in Las Vegas, Nevada.
14.
Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo

A burned-out redwood tree.
15.
Noah Berger/AP Photo

California landslide.
16.
Ulrik Pedersen/Nur Photo

Ice caps retreating in Greenland.
17.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Texan woman melts snow to flush toilet after historically cold temperatures.
18.
Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images

Burned out car in Greenville, California