WATCH: Mesmerizing Vine of thunderstorms from space

Monday, May 25, 2015, 7:00 AM - It's thunderstorm season in North America, with all that entails.

Spring was slow to get started, but now that temperatures and humidity levels are high enough, severe storms have begun to make themselves felt.

In Canada, we saw the season's first tornado warning earlier this month, while on Saturday, slow-moving storms sparked flash-flooding in the B.C. Interior.

In the United States, severe storms in Texas and Oklahoma dropped more than 300 mm of rain in short time, sparking floods that have devastated homes and killed at least one firefighter.

From a certain distance, however, these destructive forces can look rather pretty. And by "a certain distance," we mean "from orbit."

That mesmerizing Vine, shot by astronaut Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station, depicts dozens of little thunderstorms popping up across Mexico.

For fans in his own country, he soon after posts shots from above the southern U.S., specifically the Ozark Mountains:

His tongue-in-cheek comment about lack of rain has a bit of a dark side. 

Although California in particular, and much of the U.S. southwest, has been in the grip of a major drought, parts of Texas and Oklahoma have seen torrential rains this May, such that some communities are experiencing their wettest May on record, according to Mashable.

Virts and his fellow astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov have a bit of extra time to take in the view. The trio were supposed to have left for Earth in early May, but their stay has been prolonged by a spacecraft accident.

On April 28, an unmanned Russian Progress cargo ship en route to the station spun out of control shortly after reaching orbit. Though the station was never in any danger, ground controllers could not recover the spacecraft, and it burned up in the atmosphere a few days later.