Updated Dec. 30, 2019 3:48 PM
From record-setting rainfall in Texas that was eerily similar to Harvey's deluge in 2017, to massive wildfires in California and Alaska, every corner of the United States experienced incredible weather events in 2019.
Take a look below at some of the most memorable images from the past 12 months and the weather culprits behind them.
Outer Banks ravaged by Dorian, nor'easter
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Beaufort Police Officer Curtis Resor, left, and Sgt. Micheal Stepehens check a sailboat for occupants in Beaufort, N.C. after Hurricane Dorian passed the North Carolina coast on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Dorian howled over North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday — a much weaker but still dangerous version of the storm that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands and throwing a scare into year-round residents who tried to tough it out. (AP Photo/Tom Copeland)
Over the course of less than three months, residents on the Carolina coastlines found themselves buried by two of the most impactful weather events of 2019.
First, in September, Hurricane Dorian tracked directly for the Outer Banks following its destruction in the Bahamas. After leaving billions of dollars of damage in the island nation, the hurricane danced along the East Coast before pounding North Carolina with deadly impacts in the first week of September. Devastating flooding and widespread power outages blocked off entire communities within the Outer Banks from neighboring areas. Even before Dorian arrived, a tornado from an outer band of the hurricane inflicted damage.
Then, before the end of November, another round of heavy winds came by way of a "no-name nor'easter" that struck the same exact region. Dangerous waves pushed sand well inland, completely destroying dunes and burying entire neighborhoods under feet of sand.
Imelda drenches Texas
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Angel Marshman wades through floodwaters from Tropical Depression Imelda after trying to start his flooded car Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Record-breaking flooding left much of southeastern Texas underwater in September after Tropical Storm Imelda dumped over 2 feet of rain in some areas.
The highest rainfall report came in from around the Beaumont-Port Arthur areas. An observation site near Taylor's Bayou near Hamshire reported 43.39 inches of rain.
Alaskans swelter in heat wave while wildfires rage
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 2, 2019, and provided by the Alaska Division of Forestry, smoke rises from a wildfire in east Anchorage, Alaska. A fast-moving brush fire caused the temporary evacuations of a trailer home park and a science center in east Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon. Smoke from the fire raised a plume over Alaska's largest city that could be seen for miles. (Jason Jordet/Alaska Division of Forestry via AP)
In the hottest year in the history of the coldest state in the country, Alaska saw weather impacts like never before in 2019. Home of the country's largest wildfire of the year and one of the country's longest heat waves, The Last Frontier has seen major shifts in temperature patterns in recent years, beginning to completely change Alaskans' way of life.
Tornadoes leave behind destruction
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In this Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 photo, Maribel Morales, a member of Primera Iglesia Dallas, is consoled by fellow church member Ashley Villalobos as she surveys severe damage to the church, which sits near Walnut Hill and Marsh Lane, after a tornado tore through North Dallas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)
From Louisiana to Texas to Wisconsin, massive tornadoes wreaked widespread havoc throughout the country from spring to winter.
An outbreak in the second half of May produced more than 500 tornado reports, including two of the year's three EF4 twisters. The first EF4 occurred in Dayton, Ohio, on May 27 and the second occurred the next day in Linwood, Kansas.
More tornadoes - 147 - touched down in Oklahoma in 2019 than any other year in the state's history.
From the 1,661 tornado reports around the country in 2019, 42 fatalities were attributed to the storms, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
California wildfires displace millions
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Katie and Curtis Ferland pose in masks during their Sonoma County wedding. (Karna Roa / KMR Photography)
From the Kincade Fire in the northern portion of California to the Tick Fire outside Los Angeles, the 2019 wildfire season was notable for how close the blazes burned near majorly populated areas.
Photos from the catastrophes depicted how firefighters from around the country fought through the night to corral the blazes and how devastated families were to return to the spots where their homes once stood.
Storms interfere with sporting events
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A putting green for the seventh hole at the Eagle Creek Golf Club in North Carolina. A lightning bolt struck the pin, leaving the flag in tatters and marks on the grass radiating out from the hole. (Taylor Paasch)
Golf course groundskeepers at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Moyock, North Carolina, arrived at work on Aug. 20 to a unique discovery. A lightning bolt had directly hit the cup on the course's seventh hole, leaving an impressive impressive electric sprawl along the putting green.
Lightning also struck at the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in May, hitting a tree on the course during a weather delay.
During a football game between the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 20, a rain-soaked field became a mudpit by the second half and made moving the ball impossible for the offenses.
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