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As a crew races to prep logs for a new heavy lift helicopter, a substitute pilot is tested on postage-stamp sized helipads; another logging crew moves their 40-year-old yarder onto a new block, but a series of mechanical issues set them back.

Thunderstorms create gigantic red and blue electrical shapes above the clouds; ice crystals refract light into multiple suns; rainbows appear, and every observer sees a different one.

Sinkholes generate far below the earth's surface and are capable of opening up across more than 20% of it.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

Starting the day by opening a window into weather, looking out at the stories and science behind the forecast.

A midday look at up-to-the-minute forecasts and weather stories from around the country.

A midday look at up-to-the-minute forecasts and weather stories from around the country.

A midday look at up-to-the-minute forecasts and weather stories from around the country.

A midday look at up-to-the-minute forecasts and weather stories from around the country.

Uncensored take on weather and storms from an expert trio as unpredictable as nature itself.

Uncensored take on weather and storms from an expert trio as unpredictable as nature itself.

Uncensored take on weather and storms from an expert trio as unpredictable as nature itself.

Uncensored take on weather and storms from an expert trio as unpredictable as nature itself.

Sixteen years to the day of Hurricane Katrina, downtown New Orleans gets another lashing with Hurricane Ida; a look inside a Category 4 hurricane with impressive new Saildrone technology; a high-speed skier gets almost vertical at 125 mph.

High winds trigger a fire in Colorado, burning 6,000 acres and destroying thousands of homes; global shipping comes to a halt when the ship Ever Given is blown sideways, blocking shipping lanes in the Suez Canal for six days.

An EF-4 tornado hits Kentucky and levels homes in the middle of the night; in India, it's a battle for survival when a cyclone unleashes more than a month's worth of rain in two days; a professional freerider demonstrates 20-foot aerial tricks.