Storm

Today, weather will remain unstable, and clouds will develop again. In the central and eastern regions, as well as in the Rila-Rhodope massif, there will be short-lived rainfall and thunderstorms. More significant will be phenomena later in the afternoon in Eastern Bulgaria and the Rhodope region. There will also be hailstorms. Maximum temperatures will be between 28 ° and 33 °.

Over the next day the air mass over the country will remain unstable. Overnight most of the country will prevail clear and during the day - sunny weather, FOCUS News Agency reported, citing information from NIMH at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

June was an electric month for Greece, as the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) recorded 93,580 electrostatic discharges, most of which were lightning strikes, across the country.

A Turkish meteorology and disaster relief expert has criticized thousands of Istanbul residents who took precautions to protect their cars but failed to heed other warnings about extreme weather, as Turkey’s largest city braced for torrential rain and hail storms on June 26. Click through for the story in photos...

Turkey has been hit by heavy rains across several provinces over the weekend, with the General Directorate of Meteorology issuing a warning early on June 17 against flooding.

Turkey has been hit by heavy rains across several provinces over the weekend, with the General Directorate of Meteorology issuing a warning early on June 17 against flooding.

Clouds gather over the port of Nafplio in the northern Peloponnese on Saturday. A weather system dubbed 'Minos' will hit much of the country over the weekend, bringing rain, thunder and hail. Downpours have already caused flooding and power outages in parts of Attica and northern Greece. The wet weather is expected to continue through the middle of the week. [Evangelos Bougiotis/ANA-MPA]

A weather system dubbed Minos by Greek meteorologists is bringing rain, storms and hail to many parts of the country this weekend.

Sweeping in from the west, the system was to hit the islands of the Ionian on Friday, bringing light showers and a drop in temperatures, before spreading east across the rest of Greece.

Authorities in Greece say a 58-year-old motorcyclist was killed when lightning struck him on a highway.

Police say the man was found dead 40 kilometers east of the northern city of Thessaloniki with a hole in his helmet, presumably the result of the lightning striking him.

The victim was driving toward the city in stormy conditions.

From April 24th to May 28th, 101 active anti-hail impacts were conducted, 459 cloud cells were processed with just over 5000 missiles. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forests Rumen Porozhanov during Friday's parliamentary scrutiny in response to a question by the MP of the Bulgarian Socialist Party BGP for Bulgaria Rumen Georgiev on anti-flood protection.