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A storm with hundreds of lightning strikes hit Athens in the early hours of Wednesday as the Elias weather system continued to affect several parts of Greece. Residents in Athens and several other regions of Greece received text messages through...

A strong laser can attract a lightning bolt and redirect its path across the sky. It's not the first time researchers have used lasers to control electricity, but this is the first time the approach has been shown to...

Greece exits the longest unseasonally rainy weather the country has experienced since 1975, meteorologists said on Sunday. 

One runner died and another was seriously injured by lightning early on Sunday morning during an endurance race on Mt. Falakro in northern Greece's region of Drama. The race was organized by the mountain climbing association of Nevrokopi. It began...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recorded two new world records on Tuesday for megaflash lightning in the United States and South America. The WMO's Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes used state of the art satellite technology to establish two...

This timelapse video shows lightning off the coast of Artemida, east of Athens in the early hours of Tuesday. Storms have been hitting the area and the Athens National Observatory has recorded several thousand lightning strikes across the country...

A series of violent thunderstorms swept across most of the Ionian islands and western parts of the Greek mainland on Tuesday morning. Two men have died so far as a result of the storms. A 35-year old Pakistani national succumbed near...

A Boeing 737-8AS aircraft belonging to the Ryanair fleet was hit by a lightning strike over Cypriot airspace on Tuesday night. The plane, which took off from Riga, Latvia, was heading to Paphos international airport in Cyprus when the incident...

Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, was also affected by the deadly storm that hit nearby Halkidiki on Wednesday evening. Video captured by a cell phone shows the scary moment lighting hits a building in the center of the city. There were...

About 20 sheep were taking cover from the downpour in Omalos, Crete on Saturday, when they were killed by a lightning strike. According to the Meteo Weather Service of the National Observatory of Athens, more than 5,700 lightning strikes were recorded...