Nigel Paice wrote in message
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:Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
:thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
:the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

The sferics chart shows thunder in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday
http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif

or http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm after midnight

Colin Youngs
Brussels