NEW pictures have captured the electric display of thunderstorms that lit the skies above Oxfordshire in recent nights.

Spectacular lightning shows were captured by many in photographs and videos across the county over the weekend.

David Rodger-Sharp's stunning image of a bolt over Caversfield, near Bicester, above, was taken around midnight on Saturday.

Sharing the picture on twitter, he wrote: "What an impressive lightning show we had over Bicester and Oxford.. worth staying up for."

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Reader Shannon Waknell captured the lightning strikes in Wheatley shortly after 10pm yesterday.

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Oxford Mail Camera Club member Danny Straughan, meanwhile, took this video of lightning shooting across the sky from his back garden in Cutteslowe.

Also up late to photograph the storm was Stephen Munt who took this image at 2am Sunday morning.

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On social media one person described seeing lightning strikes 'every few seconds' in Oxford.

While another called the display 'spectacular'.

In Blackbird Leys, Ryan Smith filmed several bolts of lightning that show the scale of some flashes.

Robert McQueen shared this atmospheric snap of a bolt above houses on the the camera club Facebook page..

The Met Office predicted thunderstorms and flooding for the region, issuing a yellow weather warning of rain throughout the Bank holiday weekend.

It's forecast now expects an overcast morning for much of the county before the sun comes back to make an appearance about 1pm.

Temperatures are expected to reach 24C by 5pm, before light showers return for the evening.