Image was taken by emergency services officer Scott brown who dubbed the phenomenon ' looping lightning ' A flashes of lightning is shown leaving the top of the cloud before looping back towards the Earth . Lightning is caused when positive and negative lightning build up in a cloud to a point where lightning leaps to the other . As a result lightning has been seen striking the ground from a cloud and vice versa , and lightning move between clouds .
Image was taken by emergency services officer Scott Murray who dubbed the phenomenon 'looping lightning ' A bolt of lightning is shown leaving the top of the cloud before looping back towards the Earth . Lightning is caused when positive and negative charges build up in a cloud to a level where one leaps to the other . As a result lightning has been seen striking the ground from a cloud and vice versa , and can move between clouds .