From 4 pm on Thursday to 4 pm on Friday, around 19,000 lightning strikes were registered in southern Norway.
Watch video from when the thunderstorm ravaged Oslo, night to Friday, in the window above!
The storm moved east and early Friday morning the front crossed the border into Sweden. It shows lynobservasjonskartet from the Meteorological Institute
A few hundred homes in different places in Eastern Norway were without electricity for short periods due to the storm. In Oslo, the heavy lightning and thunderstorm started around 11 pm.
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Heavy lightning and thunder over large parts of Eastern Norway on Thursday night.
Photo: (NTB scanpix)
– At Vinderen in Oslo, three children had to be checked at the emergency room after lightning had struck close to them. They camped outside, says operations manager Vidar Pedersen in the Oslo police to NTB.
Lightning struck two detached houses in Bærum, but no one was injured. In a home at Bærums Verk, the molding in the house came loose after the lightning strike, reports Budstikka.
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