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Lightning Rainbow Lights Up Florida Sky

Lightning rainbow in Lehigh Acres, Florida, on July 4, 2016.
(Kelly and Chris Windbigler/Facebook)

The Fourth of July in Lehigh Acres, Florida, featured a colorful sky, lit up by both lightning and a rainbow simultaneously as a thunderstorm passed nearby.

Kelly and Chris Windbigler shared the following photos on our Facebook page of this incredible, rare sighting.

(MORE: Lightning Strikes Plane in a Rainbow in Amazing Viral Image)

The four photos were taken in a burst and are displayed in order below.

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A rainbow appears in the sky as President Barack Obama waves from the Air Force One in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 9, 2015.

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A rainbow appears in the sky as President Barack Obama waves from the Air Force One in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 9, 2015.

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