"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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BBC TV Weather has been suggesting all evening that the rain/thunder
will run North from Dorset and indeed, that the South Coast East of
Bournemouth may well stay dry for the next 24 hours. The
cloud/rainfall graphics certainly showed that.

However... the cluster of thundery precip has been shifting ENE along
the South Coast for the last 3 hours... and now, radar shows that
activity has reached the West of the IoW with a shower over the North
of Southampton.

As I write, bright sheet lighning is visible to my SW at intervals of
20 to 30 seconds and distant thunder is now faintly audible.

Temperature 20, light winds from I know not which direction after a
long period of calm this evening.

These storms often seem to jump over the immediate Solent area and
relocate over and to the North of the South Downs - I wonder if I'm
going to catch one at last?

--
Dave
West Fareham, Hampshire.

Hi Dave,

It's certainly turning out to be a fascinating spectacle from a safe
distance
(so far) tonight, that I don't yet have to power down the PC. The wind
seems to be a light NE'ly here in Romsey, perhaps a storm inflow breeze.
Interesting that you mention a rainfall echo north of Soton, for we have yet
to receive any pptn. Is it reaching the ground from this medium-level
storm?

Cheers,

Nigel.