Call me Lightning

Glasgow had trhe worst/wildest thunder and lightning i've ever seen outside the tropics last night. It must have lasted a good three hours before I went to slee and there were still flashes acrosses the sky as i was drifting off. There was forked lightning, something i've only seen on two other occasions in Scotland, and then only for a brief period. This lasted all night. The BBC has a really good set of Pictures of the storm taken by amateurs. No doubt there will be a deluge of speculation today about whether this is due to climate change and whether climate change is a man made (or influenced) phenomenon. Can anyone really make sense of all that stuff? I know I can't.