--- ---  # See the 12 Most Dramatic Weather Photos of 2015 by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Dec 10, 2015 5:03 PM UTC  A view of the erupting Chilean Calbuco volcano from Puerto Montt, located in southern Santiago de Chile, Chile on April 22, 2015. A view of the erupting Chilean Calbuco volcano from Puerto Montt, located in southern Santiago de Chile, Chile on April 22, 2015.Alex Vidal Brecas—EPA by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Dec 10, 2015 5:03 PM UTC  A view of the erupting Chilean Calbuco volcano from Puerto Montt, located in southern Santiago de Chile, Chile on April 22, 2015. Alex Vidal Brecas—EPA  A cloud of snow and debris triggered by an earthquake flies towards Everest Base Camp, moments ahead of flattening part of the camp in the Himalayas on April 25, 2015. Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty Images  Ice from Lake Erie forms on a pedestrian walkway with a view of Cleveland, Ohio in the background on Jan. 8, 2015. Tony Dejak—AP  An aerial view of the Atibainha dam, one of the main water reservoirs that supply the State of Sao Paulo, during a drought in Braganca Paulista, Brazil on Feb. 23, 2015. Victor Moriyama—Getty Images  Lightning strikes near a rainbow over Lake Mead National Recreation Area Lake Mead, Nevada on July 1, 2015. Al J. Schaben—LA Times/Getty Images  A thick blanket of early morning fog partially shrouds the skyscrapers of the Marina and Jumeirah Lake Towers districts of Dubai on Oct. 5, 2015. Kamran Jebreili—AP  A storm cloud resembling an atomic bomb is seen during the Leg 4 Volvo Ocean Race from Sanya to Auckland in Sanya, China on Feb. 26, 2015. Francisco Vignale/MAPFRE—Volvo Ocean Race/Getty Image  An image of the wildfires in the Northwest taken from the International Space Station released on Aug. 17, 2015. Kjell Lindgren—NASA  Ice floes are viewed along the Hudson River in Manhattan on a frigidly cold day in New York City on Feb. 20, 2015. Spencer Platt—Getty Images  A view of residential apartment buildings during a sandstorm in Wujiaqu city, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on April 27, 2015. Xiaochen—Imaginechina  The Lake Fire burns in the San Bernardino National Forest in California on June 18, 2015. Stuart Palley  Volcanic lightning and lava spews from the Calbuco volcano in Frutillar, southern Chile on April 23, 2015. Martin Bernetti—AFP/Getty Images Extreme Weather: Most Dramatic Photos from 2015 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4142830/extreme-weather-photos-2015/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4142830/extreme-weather-photos-2015/"},"headline":"See the 12 Most Dramatic Weather Photos of 2015","datePublished":"2015-12-10T17:03:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:47.065Z","description":"TIME looks back on this year's most striking photos of extreme weather, from a volcanic eruption in Chile to a sandstorm in Northwest China","url":"https://time.com/4142830/extreme-weather-photos-2015/","keywords":["photography","weather","Volcano","nature","lightning","2015"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64412b15f667bd7/698874acf887dc8eeae93ac2/most-extreme-weather-2015-01-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta64412b15f667bd7/698874acf887dc8eeae93ac2/most-extreme-weather-2015-01-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Most Extreme Weather Facebook","caption":"Eruption of Chilean Calbuco volcano","creditText":"Alex Vidal Brecas—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/photography/","name":"photography"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4142830/extreme-weather-photos-2015/","name":"See the 12 Most Dramatic Weather Photos of 2015"}}]}] ```