Thanks useful information: 
perhaps to explain why your image was not selected to be the final 12. The 30 finalists were voted on public vote system, and that means that a little bit of appeals to friends on FB, and lo and behold it doesnt take long to get a larger vote for a less appealing image - here's a relevant quote from the same term and conditions:
HTH16. 30 finalists will be chosen based on the number of viewer votes they receive during the Competition Period (the number of ‘likes’ received by the photo on The Weather Channel’s Facebook page).
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