"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?

Hi Nigel,

27/23Z ascent at 03882 Herstmonceux suggests a moist boundary layer with
potential instability aloft. My guess is that SSTs would easily have
broken the cap at 700hPa allowing plenty of CAPE to be released, an
interesting situation -

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...Herstmo nceux

Any lumpiness in the imagery is easily masked by the thick Ci from the
cold front/occlusion coming S over the UK -

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BI/...80000BI1_g.jpg

HTH, Joe