It wasn't a shield as such, but that decayed MCS which traversed a lot of rain out of france into the channel. All the storms were to the west of it :(
Calling it a bust for East Kent compared to what was expected! Looks like that huge mass of rain from an OLD MCS did some damage to the potential. Whereas West of us faired better
The forecast I had from yesterday evening, had the line from the Pennines all the way down into South East Kent. However today it was further east than that and into East Anglia