2012: a year of electrifying weather photos in the Washington, DC area

Trading was choppy, with investors trimming losses midday Thursday on a bullish weather forecast. In the end, the January natural gas contract, which expired Thursday, came in at $3.354 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile

Trading was choppy, with investors trimming losses midday Thursday on a bullish weather forecast. In the end, the January natural gas contract, which expired Thursday, came in at $3.354 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile

Trading was choppy, with investors trimming losses midday Thursday on a bullish weather forecast. In the end, the January natural gas contract, which expired Thursday, came in at $3.354 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile

Vivid lightning displays, paltry snowfall, a Derecho, and Superstorm Sandy highlight the photos of 2012. (Ian Livingston and Kevin Ambrose). Looking back on 2012, there was not much snow to photograph in Washington but the thunderstorms this past year

The winter weather that brought snow and ice to North Texas has also brought delays to travelers at DFW International Airport.