After the usual family festivities, all was interrupted by the approaching storms to Sydney. I held off as much as I could but I simply had to see the lightning bolt which decended ahead of the main core.
![Sydney Lightning Christmas Day 2014](http://www.extremestorms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sydney-Lightning-Christmas-Day-201402-580x363.png)
Meeting Rune at the "spot", we watched a shelf cloud develop and a nice display of lightning. A couple of very close lightning bolts thrown in as well.
![Sydney Lightning Christmas Day 2014](http://www.extremestorms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sydney-Lightning-Christmas-Day-201403-580x363.png)
![Sydney Lightning Christmas Day 2014](http://www.extremestorms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sydney-Lightning-Christmas-Day-201401-580x363.png)
This was reasonably close