The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a 'medicane', a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scientists believe will intensify in a warming world.
The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a"medicane", a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scientists believe will intensify in a warming world.
They can also bear a physical resemblance on satellite imagery as a swirling mass of storm clouds surrounding an eye in the middle. Their peak strength is usually the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, encompassing speeds of 119-153 kilometers per hour. Three medicanes occurred off Greece between 2016 and 2018, while in 2019 Spanish weather services identified one between the Balearic Islands and the Algerian coast.
In general, experts say the warming of sea surface temperatures, driven by human-induced climate change, is going to make extreme storms more intense.since the dawn of the industrial age, according to scientists.
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