Edinburgh's monster storm in pictures

In case you missed it, the humid heatwave that's been smothering Edinburgh this week erupted into a full-on thunderbolts-and-lightning, very very frightening storm last night. Here's a round-up of the best images.

I took these in the last 30mins from my house looking over the Royal Infirmary #edinburgh #lightning pic.twitter.com/TwWEUiPUS5

— The Bow Bar (@bow_bar) July 2, 2015

This was Edinburgh last nite with the thunder storm ! ? pic.twitter.com/bDccUyWzOI

— Lorna Elvin (@ElvinLorna) July 2, 2015

Slightly higher res version of my Instagram post, #lightning storm in #edinburgh. pic.twitter.com/voASqt4zDZ

— karstenmoerman (@karstenmoerman) July 2, 2015

Worth staying up for! #Edinburgh #lightning @STVNews @BBCScotlandNews @edinspotlight @lostedinburgh pic.twitter.com/LT2ZhRvKPC

— Kit Carruthers (@MrKitCarruthers) July 2, 2015

Picture of the fierce lightning storm over Leith, Edinburgh, on the night of 01 July 2015... pic.twitter.com/UWRBCWH9yA

— Captain Fargon (@CaptainFargon) July 2, 2015

 

Lighting strike outside my house in Edinburgh #edinburgh #storm #weather #lightning #strike #lightningstrike #edinburghstorm #thunder #light #thunderstorm #picoftheday #instamood #instapic #intsaedinburgh #sky

A photo posted by *Butterfly_Lover* (@butterflygal04) on May 14, 2014 at 11:53am PDT