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Lightning in Wyoming Desert
Photo: Lightning strikes above a butte in Red Desert, Wyoming
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Prongs of intracloud lightning reach across the sky above a butte in Wyoming's Red Desert. The most common type of lightning, intracloud lightning takes place within a single cumulonimbus cloud.
Photograph by Joel Sartore

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