Winter Storm Warning continues for the Cascades, heavy showers and possible hail for Portland, lightning along the coast. | KGW-TV

Almost 1000 lightning strikes hit the Bay of Plenty last night, with the “amazing” electrical storm captured on video lighting up Tauranga and Rotorua skies. Rotorua resident Joshua Dahya was at home in Owhata and first noticed the lightning at 9.47pm. “It was just so random how it was just in the one spot. There was small ones and there then was big ones, small ones, big ones … within 15 seconds of each other. It was very odd,” Dahya told the Rotorua Daily Post. 🔗: Read the full story via the