remember a storm 4 years ago in may, lightning struck 3 doors down, caused all the alarms in the local area to go off, the brightest fork and the loudest thunder I had ever seen and heard!!!
The storm furthest west seems to be struggling if u look at the rate of strikes on land and the rate on the channel
http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en#y=50.3732;x=2.3322;z=9;t=1;m=sat;r=0;s=15;d=2;a=2;dc=0;o=0;n=0;dl=2;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167#extra-uk-content bbc predictions show it will be blown west when it meets the coast, it'll only skim the UK South coast, hope they are wrong!