When lightning strikes 103,000 times
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Lightning hit Greece almost 103,000 times last month, the highest number of strikes since 2005, when records began, the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) has said.
The NOA’s Zeus long-range lightning detection network recorded 102,944 lightning strikes in July, beating the previous monthly record of 83,373 registered in the same month in 2009.