Almost 14,000 lightning bolts
hit Sardinia Wednesday, a record in Europe, a local
meteorologist said.
"Almost 14,000 bolts, one after another, have hit Sardinia
since this morning", said Dario Secci, meteorologist of the
Sardegna Clima network.
Sardinia, he said, was "the most active area in Europe for
these phenomena today".
More than 26 millimetres of rain fell on Sardinian capital
Cagliari Wednesday, a Cedoc pluviometer said.
Storms have swept parts of Italy as a long heat wave has
broken.
But more heat is on the way, meteorologists say.
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