WHEN LIGHTNING AND COLOR SHARED THE SAME SKY

 WHEN LIGHTNING AND COLOR SHARED THE SAME SKY 

The storm rolled in heavy and low, its base dark and layered like stacked smoke. Then the sky split .. a jagged bolt dropped straight from the cloud deck, white and blinding against the fields.

At the same time, sunlight slipped through the storm’s edge behind the rain curtain. Raindrops in the clearing air refracted the light into a full rainbow — red to violet — standing bright against the gray wall of cloud.

It’s rare but real: lightning strikes within the storm core while the opposite edge clears just enough for the sun to break through. Two évents in one frame — electric discharge above… and scattered light below.

For a few seconds, the prairie held both thunder and color at once.

 Red River Valley, North Dakota, USA