“A sunny beach is the last place you would find storm chaser Mike Olbinski holidaying – as he chases ferocious hurricanes and tornados across America. The 39-year-old photographer spends almost all of his free-time capturing extreme weather formations, including explosive lightning storms and vast supercells. These powerful images are among the best he has snapped over the last four years in states including Arizona, Kansas and Texas”. – Barcroft Media

The infamous boneyard seen against a summer monsoon sky in Tucson, Arizona in July 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

An unusual lightning strikes the Arizona plains on October 2010. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A wall of dust and light under a layer of clouds like an undercurrent beneath a storm in July 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A colour version of the haboob thunderstorm hitting Phoenix in July 2011. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A magnificent capture of lightning strikes with lightning storm eruption just south of Casa Grande in July 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

The remains of the epic storm in northwest of Booker, Texas in June 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A lonesome dust storm hovers over the fields in Arizona in October 2010. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A storm sends down hundreds of bolts over 2 hours out near Buckeye, Arizona in August 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Lightning strikes in the desert near the Four Peaks mountain range and Saguaro Lake in July 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

The sunset is seen behind the turbulent weather in Oklahoma as seen from an airplane in May 2011. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Lightning strikes out from a thunderstorm located SW of highway 85 between Gila Bend and Ajo, Arizona in October 2010. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A picturesque supercell formation in the northwest of Booker, Texas from June 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Lightning strikes south of Camp Verde just after sunset in July 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Light trails from passing cars pictured with heavy lightning in the distance, taken along highway 77 near Mammoth, Arizona in July 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A picturesque capture of a supercell formation in northwest of Booker, Texas from June 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Heavy lightning strikes hit the ground just south of Casa Grande, including Arizona City and the Tohono O'odham Nation in July 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A magnificent capture of an approaching thunderstorm with a strong hail core in August 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Lightning strikes hit just south of Casa Grande as the sun sets creating a mammatus spread out into the upper skies in July 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A thunderstorm rolls through the clear skies of Phoenix in July 2011. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A magnificent series of lightning strikes captured in a spam of 20 seconds just after a thunderstorm in Arizona, September 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A heavy curtain of mammatus hangs over the Texas panhandle in June 2013 as a lightning strike weaves its way through the bubbles in the sky. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A massive lightning strike explodes over the town of Casa Grande in August 2011. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A lightning bolt strikes at sunset as monsoon storm begins to die out, in June 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A lightning bolt strikes in the middle of Tucson city during the summer monsoons in July 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A spellbound supercell formation pictured on the plains of the Oklahoma Panhandle near Boise City in June 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

A dazzling capture of a strong microburst or downdraft, coupled with an approaching wall of dust in north of Casa Grande in August 2012. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)

Heavy Lightning strikes down just to the south of Casa Grande in July 2013. (Photo by Mike Olbinski/Barcroft Media)