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City Park in Denver became an amazing science project Wednesday, after a city employee mistakenly programmed the sprinklers in the park to go off at 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday instead of 10:30 a.m. the following morning. The result? What The Weather Channel is terming a “happy mistake” — trees, leaves, and even blades of grass encapsulated in a perfect ball of ice. Temperatures hit below freezing overnight as the sprinklers were going off, and everything in the park that was coated with water turned to ice. Officials say no plants or trees were damaged by the ice.

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Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes, who broke down in tears while reporting on the post-tornado devastation in Joplin, Missouri joined Anderson Cooper on location to describe the scene as he arrived there. As one of the first reporter crews on the ground in Joplin, Bettes watched the storm evolve from a thunderstorm of moderate strength to the most devastating tornado in fifty years.

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Weather geeks are so, well, geeky sometimes. Like when they experience two–yes TWO–consecutive claps of thunder and lightning during a snowstorm. That’s the amazing experience that befell The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore in Chicago during this week’s huge snowstorm and–thankfully–the camera was rolling.

The result? Well, while we can’t truly appreciate the weather amazement that only the holder of an AMS seal would have at thunder snow, we still think the name sounds sorta cool.

On Sunday night, Weather Channel meteorologist Kim Perez got a surprise at the office — her boyfriend Marty Cunningham live, on the air, with a ring. AWWWWWWW, said the Internet collectively, relieved to have a new feel-good hero to make us feel a little less terrified about all those would-be terrorists training in Yemen. Marty [...]