Record number of lightning bolts strike Greece in June

In all of the days of the month - with no exception - there was lightning activity in the country.
Last month, there were 93,580 electrical discharges country-wide, the majority of them being lightning strikes.
Among the few areas that escaped the high electrical activity were Karpathos and the western part of Icaria, added NOA.
The most intense activity was seen between June 15 to 19 during the Minoas spell of bad weather, which saw more than 64,000 lighting strikes. In the Nefeli bout of bad weather (between June 24 to 29), conditions were worse but there was not as much lightning (12,500), mainly in the NW Aegean and SW Peloponnese.
The day with the most amount of lightning was June 15 (18,818) and then June 16 (16,685). The day with least amount of activity was June 8 (eight) and June 30 (nine).
Lightning bolts caused the death of two people in Macedonia on June 2 and 3, and the serious injury of a child in Larissa on June 13. They also set several forests on fire throughout Greece.