French thunderstorms "regenerating" after crossing the Channel

[PersianPaladin]

I've seen forecasters say this with respect to thunderstorms from France moving northwards and decaying over the Channel, only to sometimes regenerate over the surface of southern England. Yet, this occured at night when surely most of the insolation had gone? Or perhaps there is residual insolation, wind shear, etc? I'd love for the forecasters to stop and give a good explanation as to what exactly was behind that "regeneration". Whether it was a case of clusters of cells with generally weakening updraughts and strengthening downdraughts experiencing a change of dynamics when hitting the coast, acting as "seed" cells for other forms of convection, etc. There should be some case-studies of this.

[wimblettben]

To be honest, I have seen plenty of times where the opposite is true, where storms degenerate as they reach land.

Like today for instance!