in 228292 20070715 144252 Dave Ludlow wrote:
Heavy thunderstorm has recently developed over the Isle of Wight and
is now overhead here in West Fareham, seems to be heading North East.

Frequent lightning flashes, heavy thunder very close by, very heavy
rain as i write.

I'm 7 miles NE of Fareham but it missed us completely.

As I write this (21:20) http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
shows a huge storm covering most of Belgium, yet http://www.blitzortung.de/
shows it over Kent and Sussex. My b-i-l in Hastings says he has a storm at
the moment so it appears that the IOW station is over-estimating the distances.