Like they say, when it rains, it pours ... and erupts and flows and shakes and swelters and blows and generally wreaks havoc around the country.

It's not like we're looking at the end of times, but you have to admit there's a lot of wild and scary Mother Nature stuff happening across the US right now. The devastating lava flows in Hawaii are probably the scariest, but geysers, earthquakes and heavy rains are rattling the Earth from California to Florida.
And we're just entering tornado and hurricane season.
Is it anything to be alarmed about? Not necessarily, but all these crazy natural happenings coming at the same time make a fascinating coincidence.

Volcanic lava in Hawaii

Smoldering flows of glowing red and crusty black lava have been consuming parts of Hawaii's Big Island since May 3, and residents just got more bad news. Two new fissures opened near the Kilauea Volcano over the weekend, belching more lava and fumes. That makes 18 fissures in total.
Nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated from the area, and there may be more eruptions to worry about in the near future as lava mixes with groundwater and creates what is known as "steam explosions." Even after everything has settled down, the threat of volcanic smog and acid rain may linger.

A geyser eruption in Yellowstone

There's also more movement under the earth on the US mainland. Wyoming's Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park just erupted for the fifth time this year. The temper of the world' largest active geyser is fairly hard to predict, but five times a year is notable considering the last time it erupted before then was in 2014.

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