Lightning shooting in a downward direction from the skies is what we are used to – but teaming with this week’s theme of strange weather phenomena, brave storm chasers in NSW have witnessed the opposite. During a recent storm, photographer Michael Keene captured the must-be-seen-to-be-believed shots of rare upward lightning near the town of Robertson in the Southern Highlands. Think: a photo of regular lightning shooting from the heavens, but upside down. Keene was “ecstatic” to spot the lightning stretching from the top of 2 local transmission towers – he says it has occurred locally before, but it’s hard to catch on camera. For those who want the particulars on how exactly it went down (or up), the Royal Meteorological Society are on the case.