MailOnline Travel features photo of lightning storm in Ha Long Bay

According to MailOnline, ‘Weather’ by Robert J Ford features a dramatic collection of over 160 images which clearly demonstrates how “the weather affects us all”. The book features numerous snaps of various aspects of nature, from violent tornadoes and moody mists and fogs to powerful lightning storms and fierce blizzards.

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The image of the lightning storm occurring in Ha Long Bay is among the most amazing images chosen by MailOnline. As author of the books, Ford explains that lightning occurs when electricity travels between two areas of particles which are oppositely charged.

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Here are some of the other photos from the book chosen by MailOnline Travel. Pictured is a tornado in Colorado in the United States.

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A 170-metre-high dune is captured at Amib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia.

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Drying forest in Tatacoa desert in Colombia. MailOnline Travel quotes Ford as saying that Tatacoa Desert is not a desert at all, but is actually a semi-arid tropical forest.