File:Lightning Over Dunes (42426653455).jpg

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NPS/Patrick Myers Lightning evokes power, brilliance, and supernatural wrath to people throughout the world. A large lightning bolt is 50,000 degrees F - hotter than the surface of the sun - and forms fulgurites, tubes of dark glass on the sand (see photo in comments below). These pieces of "petrified lightning" are stormy testaments that the dunes can be a wild place of extreme conditions. In summer months, plan your dunes time for morning hours to avoid 150 degree F sand or thunderstorms with lightning!

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Author Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve at https://flickr.com/photos/94707653@N06/42426653455. It was reviewed on 1 January 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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