CNN —At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday. In a surprise storm, hailstones of up to 10 cm in diameter pelted the streets of Veneto, according to regional president Luca Zaia. Emergency services responded to more than 500 calls for help due to damage to property and personal injuries, the Veneto regional civil protection said. The Italian Meteorological Society named the latest heat wave Cerberus after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s Inferno as a guard to the gates of hell. “The earth has a high fever and Italy is feeling it firsthand,” Luca Mercalli, head of the Italian Meteorological Society, told CNN.

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Persons: Luca Zaia, ” Zaia, ” Luca Mercalli, Emilia Romagna, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Workers, Sky24, Italian Meteorological Society Locations: Italy, Veneto, Europe, Spain, Greece, Rome, Italian, Emilia