Thunder and lightning lit up the skies this morning to devastating effect.

Unless you are a heavy sleeper, you were probably awoken by the huge thunderstorm in the early hours of the morning. Plus, if you are a parent, the chances are your bed was no longer your own.

Weather (sorry) you like a good thunderstorm or not, it is a beautiful sight showing the power of mother nature.

Midnight to 4am time lapse of lightning across the South East

Here are some tweets from this morning.

This #Lightning and #Thunder is so mesmerising 😍🌨⛈⚡️ pic.twitter.com/l15Jg6vbw7