If you've got friends on the West Coast, your Facebook news feed was likely submerged in status updates about the lightning and thunder Thursday night. Here are 10 astonishing photos of the storm in action over San Francisco.
Woah. A storm cloud billowing over New Brunswick, Canada takes on a creepily familiar shape. Skip ahead to 1:20 to see the face emerge.
Science Buzz Electrician Sean Heavey uses a $10 iPad app called RadarScope to track down storms, which he then photographs! More details available at The Daily Mail.
Terrifying video of a woman rescued from a near-fatal slide into traffic during a storm.
Amateur storm chasers get their car smashed up by hailstones the size of golf balls, proving once again why sane people don't chase storms.
Culture Buzz Jesus is awesome! Now if he could only make it rain money.
Culture Buzz In the epic battle of Mother Nature vs. the umbrella, Mother Nature always wins. Hands down.
Culture Buzz As the storm brews in the fight against gay marriage, the good folks at Restoring Integrity to Marriage (or RIM) expect to throw in their two cents.
A NASA shot of 2004’s Hurricane Ivan shows the terrifying power of the hurricane. The dizzying perspective and inclusion of the solar panels of the Internation Space Station make it seem like the shot is taken from the ground looking up into the sky, instead of the other way around.