People across the county have had some close encounters with lightning as thunderstorms continue to batter the county.
One Kendal resident, Patrick Cowdroy, was lucky enough to capture a slow motion video of it on Monday.
He said: “I’d love to say it was all my own skill but in fact I was extremely lucky. I checked a weather radar app and noticed the storm would be heading North tracking a couple of miles East of Kendal and calculated the approximate time it would hit.
“I set up my humble camera/phone, one feature it does have is a super slow motion setting, so I kept moving the camera slightly on its stand where I thought the next strike would be.
“Luckily, I managed to capture this amazing lightning event. After 40 years of trying to capture lightning on various devices and cameras, it’s was a simple setting that helped.”
He added: “I am a bit shocked how popular the reaction has been to the video, but obviously I am pleased.”
Milnthorpe resident Rebecca Bennett, also caught some of the storm action from the safety of her garden in a short clip where the sky turns purple as the lightning hits.
Sheet lightning was also spotted over the Irish Sea on Monday.
The Met Office have issued a further yellow thunderstorm warning for Cumbria today, meaning that the weather is likely to cause low level impacts, including some disruption to travel in a few areas.
It said: “While some places stay dry, others are likely to see thunderstorms with torrential rain bringing some disruption.”
Maximum temperatures throughout the day are set to hit 23 degrees and a cloudy and muggy start to the day with low cloud and hill fog is likely.
It added: “Showers will then develop through the morning, becoming heavy and thundery in places with a risk of hail, lightning and localised flooding.”
