Atmospheric electricity

Four people were lightly injured on Wednesday afternoon when lightning struck the Acropolis Hill during a thunderstorm, the Culture Ministry said.
The citadel's lightning rod was hit by a bolt and its impact smashed the windows of the ticket booths at the entrance to the ancient site, injuring two Culture Ministry employees and two tourists.

Lightning struck Greece around 3,000 times during the powerful rainstorms that swept the country on Monday, mainly over sea areas, according to the National Observatory of Athens.
The lightning was detected by the ZEUS long-range lightning detection system operated by the observatory.

This file photo shows lightning striking over sunlit rocky island during thunderstorm on Aegean Sea near Marmaris, Turkey. Photo: Aygul Sarvarova / Alamy

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. 

The hot wave, which covered parts of Europe, moved to the Western Balkans, but it will not be felt in Bulgaria.

"The British Isles and France are getting cold. Thunderstorms and significant rainfall are expected in these areas. " This was stated by Anastasia Stoycheva from the Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology for "Hello, Bulgaria" by NOVA.

Strong wind and rain were accompanied by a thunderstorm. One lightning struck and damaged the minaret on a mosque located in the central parts of the town.

Local media are reporting that nobody was injured, but that the storm caused power outages in some parts of the town.

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Huge thunderclouds caused an electric storm in Turkey's Marmara region, particularly hitting Istanbul with thousands of lightning bolts in the early hours of July 24.

Sofia. Today, rainy clouds will continue to gather and bring rain and thunderstorms to many places, chances of hail remain. Atmospheric pressure is lower than the average for the month, it is expected to begin to rise in the afternoon. There will be light to moderate mostly northern wind.

On the first day of the new week in the morning hours it will be mostly sunny and warm in most of the country. Even before noon over northern Bulgaria, and later in the day, even over the South, will begin the development of cumulus clouds. In many places there will be rainfall and thunderstorms, there will also be hailstorms, meteorologists predict.

According to mid-term forecasts by the end of July, we can not expect temperatures above 34-35 degrees, nor a particular change in weather, which is more typical for autumn than for summer.