1. Storm over the desert, Namibia

2. A brief but fierce storm drenched the New York region just before the morning rush yesterday.

3. Freak snow storm hits Nepal

4. "Nature is beautiful even at its fiercest," wrote Jabu Mnguni, who took this photograph of an electric storm in South Africa 's coastal port of Durban .

5. Photo of a car on the James Dalton Highway near the Yukon River in a snow storm, Alaska , USA .

6. At Dhaulagiri base camp the morning after the snow storm.

7. Shot from our kitchen last night during the electric storm in Toronto .

8. This satellite picture shows the huge storm. It was a category five, the strongest type of hurricane.

9. John Splitt witnessed a sand storm in Sudan's capital, Khartoum . He submitted the photo with the disclaimer: "Being out in it is not to be recommended."