Worldwide Photos of Ice Jams, Hail, Fires, Flowers

You guys know my mantra is that "The Weather Is Always Interesting." Our Facebook & Photo Gallery users are proving that point this week by posting a weather cross-section of impressive photos from across the world. First, ice jams from a river are damaging buildings as ice blocks come ashore near Kaunas, Lithuania, in three photos posted by Edvinas K.:

You can read more about that story, and ice jams in Mongolia, on AccuWeather.com. Next up, Fan Ryan R. added a link to this video of a fire in Trinidad & Tobago, islands off the northeast coast of South America in the southern Caribbean. There is even a Facebook Group dedicated to posting news, photos and video about the drought there. We wrote a story on the drought there earlier this month and updated that with this video yesterday:

Next up, big hail in West Virginia Monday, posted by Lori W. You might think that the state doesn't usually get big hail because of the mountains there, but this was in the flatter Northern Panhandle which often gets storms with a severity of those in the Ohio Valley, before they move into the mountains of Pennsylvania and weaken. In this case, a strong upper-level low pressure system provided cold air aloft, generating large hail in homegrown, slowly northward moving storms in the area (typically they come from the west).

Photos also keep "springing up" showing Spring flowers in Europe and the United States, including this beautiful shot by Jimmy D. from Florida.

And last but not least, over on the AccuWeather.com Photo Gallery, incredible pictures of the Red River flooding in North Dakota...

And a classically beautiful severe thunderstorm in Brazil, where autumn has just started: