: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


Thanks for the confirmation of those Channel sferics, Colin.
I have since discovered that distant thunder was also heard
at around the same time from Lymington on the Hampshire
coast, 12 miles southwest of Southampton.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire).

p.s. current air temp is +2.1C (at 2210Z).