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Nature shows a colorful contrast as a bright yellow blossoming rape field is seen next to a still green grain field near Proetzel, Germany, May 19.
Colorful fields are a study in contrast
Tornadoes rip through Kansas, Oklahoma
Travis Heying / MCT via Zuma Press
A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita near the town of Viola, Kan., on Sunday. The tornado was part of a line of storms that passed through the Central Plains states.
By Jeff Black and Hasani Gittens, NBC News
People in two states were taking shelter amid wailing warning sirens Sunday as tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma as part of an extreme weather system plowing through the nation's midsection.
The system, which stretched from North Texas to Minnesota, also heaved hail -- dime to softball sized -- as well as heavy rainfall.
Residents in downtown Wichita, Kan., were told to seek shelter Sunday afternoon after a tornado was confirmed on the ground – with its presence cloaked by think clouds and heavy rain.
Ice from Canada's Dauphin Lake comes ashore, destroys houses
Shelby Watts / The Canadian Press via AP
A pile of ice and debris nearly covers homes in Ochre Beach, in Canada's Manitoba province, May 11. Strong winds on Friday evening pushed the ice on Dauphin Lake ashore onto Ochre Beach, a summer community about 125 miles northwest of Winnipeg.
Read more from CBC News.
Editor's note: Image received May 19.
Wisconsin wildfire burns through nearly 50 structures
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via AP
This May 14 photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a smoky wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that has consumed 8,700 acres, destroyed nearly 50 structures and forced dozens from their homes. The DNR says the wildfire in Douglas County is about 90 percent contained Wednesday morning, meaning firefighters have stopped most of the fire from spreading.
Clint Austin / AP
A structure burns along Sutfin Road east of Comminsky Road in Highland Township, Wis., east of Solon Springs, Wis., on May 14. Crews from Wisconsin and Minnesota were trying to control a rapidly growing wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that forced evacuations of the sparsely populated area. Several structures were destroyed in a mostly rural and wooded area east of Solon Springs as the forest fire grew to 9 square miles, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. No injuries had been reported.
Somewhere over the rainbow in the Adriatic Sea
Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
A man stands under an umbrella as a rainbow spans over the Croatian Island of Cres in the Adriatic Sea, May 11.
Panorama: Sandy-struck Breezy Point, then and now
Soon after Superstorm Sandy pushed a surge of water through the Queens, N.Y., neighborhood of Breezy Point, a fire engulfed more than 100 homes. A panoramic image taken on Nov. 1, 2012 (bottom image), shows the wrecked remains of a town that was both swamped and burned. While the Army Corps of Engineers has largely cleared the debris, little rebuilding has begun in this area (top image). Use the navigation buttons to move left or right or to zoom.( David Friedman and John Makely / NBC News)While some neighbors are almost ready to move back home, others are still unsure how much of their property can be rebuilt following the storm.
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This story was originally published on Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:11 AM EDT
Spring flooding continues to cause problems from Texas to North Dakota
Dave Wallis / The Forum via AP
People walk on a narrow strip of land between a flooded Woodlawn Park, background, and the rising Red River, foreground, April 28, in Moorhead, N.D.
From Texas to North Dakota, heavy spring rains continue to trigger flash floods and turn streets into rivers, NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
Sunbathing on ice
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Vladimir Samsonov, 59, a resident from the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk and a member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club, sunbathes as he sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on April 26, 2013.
Fish swims by window in Grand Rapids, Mich., floodwaters
Lynn Clay via WOOD TV
Lynn Clay grabbed her camera to snap a frame of the floodwaters outside one of the windows in her office building at the Riverfront Plaza in Grand Rapids, Mich., and captured a little fish swimming by. She didn't even realize the fish was in the frame until she looked at it later and, as even the most seasoned photographer will admit, she said, "I got lucky!"
Clay told NBCNews.com she has never seen the Grand River this high before. "The water is usually only 18 inches to 2 feet deep outside the building, but now it's probably 20 feet deep. It's up over the walkways, the roads, and up the buildings to the windows."
She does not live in close proximity to the river, so her home has not been impacted.
Related story: Surging rivers near crest, but many Midwestern towns already inundated
Deadly storms hit Midwest
Derik Holtmann / Belleville News-Democrat via AP
A pedestrian crosses flooded Illinois state route 161 in Belleville, Ill., April 18, 2013, after a quarter mile stretch of the road was quickly covered in water from heavy rains that were too much for the storm drains to handle.
Much of the Midwest has been affected by a big spring storm that left flooding in Illinois. Residents in Gurnee, Ill., said it's the worst flooding they've seen in a decade and officials are warning it could be a week or two before flood levels significantly drop. NBC's John Yang report.
NBC News reports:
A massive and deadly weather system carrying potentially severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and possibly even tornadoes was soaking the nation’s midsection on Thursday, with flash floods reported in Chicago and heavy rain expected to cause major flooding along the Mississippi River. The weather was said to be responsible for two deaths.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn declared a state of emergency across Illinois as thousands of people struggled with flood damage even as another wave of wet weather was on the way.
Sandstorm shrouds parts of China in orangish darkness
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Motorists drive with their lights during a heavy sandstorm in Yecheng county, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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Commuters travel during a heavy sandstorm in Yecheng county, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
A sandstorm blankets northwest China due to a cold snap that also brought strong winds. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
A spring sandstorm blanketed areas of northwest China in darkness on Tuesday. Commuters turned on their emergency lights, and pedestrians covered their mouths and noses to protect themselves from dust kicked up by high winds.
The sandstorm affected several cities including Kashi, Hetian and Kezhou.
Editor's Note: Images were shot on April 16, and made available to NBC News today.
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Motorists drive with their lights during a heavy sandstorm in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Spring baseball game uncovered from 8 inches of snow
Jack Dempsey / AP
New York Mets' Jonathon Niese throws in the snow before the start of a baseball doubleheader between the New York Mets and Colorado Rockies on April 16 in Denver.
Jack Dempsey / AP
Coors Field grounds crew and stadium employees shovel snow before the start of a baseball doubleheader between the New York Mets and Colorado Rockies on April 16 in Denver.
By Pat Graham, AP Sports Writer
Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort is among the grounds crew shoveling snow in the hope his team will squeeze in a doubleheader against the New York Mets on Tuesday.
Nearly an hour before first pitch at 3:10 p.m. EDT, the crew had hauled off a majority of the eight inches of snow that covered the outfield grass. There were still mounds stacked up in front of the dugouts. Continue reading.
Jack Dempsey / AP
Dan O'Dowd, Executive Vice President, Chief Baseball Officer/General Manager and Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort, right, survey the snow while shoveling before the start of a baseball doubleheader between the New York Mets and the Colorado Rockies on April 16 in Denver.
Stephanie Pilick / AP
Warming weather and longer days bring out the first signs of Spring.