August 30, 2024
FEATURED, weather
A bad weather front with heavy lighting stroke Greece on Friday and sparked 24 fires across the country, the Fire Service said. Two wildfires ignited by lightning Friday afternoon are burning in Kalyvia Thorikou and in Penteli, eastern Attica. On the island of Evia, four lighting bolts caused fires in …
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August 20, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Almost 32,000 lightning strikes were recorded in Greece in the 24 hours up to Monday evening, the meteo service of the National Observatory of Athens. Of the 31,828 strikes, 3,906 occurred over land while 27,922 occurred at sea, mainly along the country’s northwestern coastline. The strikes were accompanied by heavy …
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August 19, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued an emergency bulletin warning of a weather deterioration with heavy rain showers and storms, locally accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and hail falls. At the same time, the intense weather phenomena have already hit the country causing flooding and damages mostly …
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July 5, 2024
FEATURED, weather
A total of 62 fires broke out in the last 24 hours, most of them due to lightning during the powerful weather front raging in Greece on Thursday, the Fire Brigade said. Οver 15,000 lightning bolts fell within nine hours across the country. 1,200 of them stroke Athens and Attica …
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June 28, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A tragedy in Halkidiki: A lightning struck and killed a 13-year-old girl on Friday afternoon. Her mother has been slightly injured. According to state broadcaster ERT, the girl was walking with her mother at the beach of Posidi, when the lightning struck around 4:30 p.m. Friday afternoon. An ambulance rushed …
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May 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 26-year-old tourist from Great Britain was struck and killed by a lightning, while he was swimming on the island of Rhodes early afternoon Monday. The man was in the sea area of Agia Agatha and incident occurred short before 2 o’ clock During the rain the young tourist was …
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May 2, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms that will be accompanied in places by a high frequency of lightning and hail, as well as temporary stormy winds. The bad weather front is forecast to strike Greece from the West …
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October 13, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency billeting warning of a bad weather front forecast to affect the country from Thursday night to Sunday morning, October 13-16, 2022. According to head of the EMY, Thodoris Kolydas, the barometric low in the Ionian Sea will bring heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms …
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August 25, 2022
weather
Some 50,000 lightning bolts fell in Greece in less than 24 hours, as powerful thunderstorms struck large part of the eastern of continental Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea for a second day on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. According to the data published by the National Observatory of …
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August 24, 2022
weather
A lightning killed more than 50 sheep in the region of Vlacha in Metsovo, northern Greece, during a thunderstorm that hit the area on Tuesday afternoon. According to state broadcaster ERT, the frequent thunderstorms that have broken out in recent days are particularly intense with lots of lightning. Greece is …
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August 21, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
One athlete was killed and another was seriously injured when a lightning struck participants of the Six Peaks Night Mountain Race on mountain Falakro in northern Greece in the early hours of Sunday. A third athlete survived with hypothermia, while the fourth athlete in the group, a woman, escaped the …
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June 11, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Over 27,000 lightning strikes fell in less than 24 hours on Friday, with stormy weather GENESIS to hit large parts of Greece with no mercy. Heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms confirmed the forecasts for strong and dangerous weather phenomena. Floods occurred in several parts of the country and the Fire service …
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December 4, 2020
weather
Α lightning bold fell on the roof of a house in the village of Malona on the island of Rhodes on Friday afternoon. Firefighters rushed to the house as the roof caught fire. The second floor of the house is under construction and the family has been living on the …
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May 22, 2020
weather
Torrential rains turned streets into rives and thousands of lightning bolts left households and business without power, when the bad weather front stroke Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece. Fire brigades rescued a young man whose car was swept away from rushing waters. Particularly hit by the severe weather phenomena …
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November 22, 2019
weather
Storms have flooded areas in Halkidiki, Kavala and the island of Thassos in northern Greece. At least two municipalities have been declared in “state of emergency. A thunderbolt opened a hole in a house on the island of Limnos house. Limnos A thunderbolt stroke a home on the island of …
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April 17, 2019
weather
Four people were injured after a lightning stroke the Acropolis of Athens during a thunderstorm on Wednesday afternoon. The injured have been transferred to Evangelismos hospital in the city center. The unprecedented incident occurred around 4:30 in the afternoon. According to preliminary information, the lightning stroke at the ticket counter …
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March 5, 2019
weather
Non-stop rain, for 41 consecutive hours, hit the island of Crete between February 24 and 26, while a total of 15,500 bolts of lightning fell, data released by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) has shown. The unprecedented rainfall flooded mainly the West part of Crete and caused huge damages …
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January 9, 2019
weather
A shock for Eurowings passengers heading to Thessaloniki in North Greece from Cologne in Germany on Wednesday morning. A lightning stroke Eurowings flight EW652 forcing the pilot to return to departure airport for safety reasons. Eurowings flight EW652 had to return to Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday morning, after the airplane …
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August 17, 2018
weather
An extremely high number of lightning, that is more than 22,000 fell in the Ionian Sea and the mainland of West Greece on a single day. According to ZEUS system of Greece’s National Observatory the extremely high number of lightnings fell in the early morning hours until 5:30 p.m. on …
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July 3, 2018
weather
More than 93,500 lightning strikes have been recorded in Greece in the month of June that was hit by several bad weather fronts. The National Observatory in Athens said that the activity of the electrical phenomena recorded by the ZEUS electrical detection system was quite high in June. With the …
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