Colin Youngs wrote in message ...
:Sky more and more threatening over Brussels in the last half hour.
:Occasional rumbles of thunder - and abrupt onset of heavy rain as I write.

Heavy shower lasted a few minutes with several more rumbles of thunder.
Brighter for a short while but sky darkening rapidly again now.

Heavy thunderstorm with fierce squalls and marble-sized hail reported
recently from Brugge (Bruges) in West Flanders just inland from the Belgian
coast.

Colin Youngs
Brussels