A sandstorm sweeps through Golmud city in northwest China's Qinghai province. Visibility was reduced to seven metres.
Hail pours out from a home down-spout during a severe storm which later produced a tornado which knocked down power lines, damaged homes and businesses in Oklahoma.
Lightning is pictured with time exposure during an eruption from Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishima range in Southern Japan.
Lightning strikes a tower during a thunderstorm in the region of Zurich, Switzerland.
Lightning exits a thunderstorm south of Oklahoma.
Los Angeles skyline is seen under a sunset thunderstorm in Los Angeles. Temperatures in the daytime reached 113 fahrenheit.
Lightning strikes are seen across the sky, lighting up skyscrapers in downtown Tuscon, Arizona.
The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis lights up the polar night sky. They are caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth's magnetic field.
Flames shoot out of a statue of Jesus Christ in Ohio after it was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm.
A thunderstorm in Kent left this double rainbow behind.
The capital city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is engulfed by a sand storm. Local weather authorities announced that visibility would be reduced to zero.
A slow-moving waterspout spawned by thunderstorms roared down the Peace River, coming ashore twice as a tornado in Punta Gorda in south west Florida
A lightning strike is captured on camera striking through a rainbow.
Icicles block the front door of a farm house, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in Canterbury, N.H. as temperatures drop below zero overnight.
Icicles form on a walkway along Lake Michigan in Port Washington, Wi., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Milwaukee.
Heavy snow forces a driver to abandon his car on Lakeshore Drive, Chicago.
FOSHAN, CHINA - APRIL 17: (CHINA OUT) Dark clouds bearing down on the city on April 17, 2011 in Foshan, Guangdong Province of China. According to flood control authorities on Monday, gales as strong as 45.5 meters per second, accompanied by hailstorm, cloudburst and strong wind battered cities including Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhaoqing and Dongguan of south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, has killed at least 17 people and injured 118
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