Lightning in Expanding Volcanic Sunset Cumulus.

During the evening on Friday 7th March, a cumulus cloud was recorded expanding into a weak volcanic sunset display above Murahwa Mountain between 6.20 and 6.36 pm. While doing so two brief unexpected flashes of lightning were observed which were later found to have been captured in four consecutive video frames. These are shown in the accompanying full frame composite image and a timelapse animation which will be posted as a Disqus comment if this submission appears.

Tripod-mounted Panasonic lumix DMC-ZS40 in sunset video mode.

Extraction of four frames from video and compilation of enlarged composite image.