TampaBay.com reader Susi Carraher of Brandon stopped to snap a photo of a sun dog while driving along I-75 near Cape Coral earlier this month. "A very breathtaking phenomena," she wrote.

USATODAY.com offers a good explanation of sun dogs in this Q&A: Sun dogs are splotches of light on one or both sides of the sun, sometimes with the colors of the rainbow.

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