Quick Pics: Beauty and violence of nature

Stars blaze in the Milky Way over Beaver Creek Park Wednesday.

Thunderclounds loom in a storm north of Havre. A thunderstorm this week brought the first severe hail warning to the area with some locations including just east of Havre seeing hailstones up to 1 inch Wednesday evening. The forecast for the weekend is for mostly cloudy to sunny skies through Monday for Havre, with highs in the 60s Saturday and into the 80s by Monday.