Photo: Ben Leshchinsky
The Big Apple cools down
A bolt of lightning strikes a building on June 22 near the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan's Upper West Side in this photo captured from an apartment terrace near 67th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
A bolt of lightning strikes a building on June 22 near the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan's Upper West Side in this photo captured from an apartment terrace near 67th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
After a week of scorching temperatures and high humidity, a line of thunderstorms brought temporary relief from the oppressively hot weather rolling across the mid-Atlantic coast.
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Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Riding in a downpour
A man rides his bicycle in the pouring rain through the drenched streets of New York City during an intense afternoon thunderstorm.
A man rides his bicycle in the pouring rain through the drenched streets of New York City during an intense afternoon thunderstorm.
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Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Umbrella sharing
Two women huddle together underneath a single umbrella while walking through an afternoon thunderstorm in New York City.
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