An extremely rare hybrid low-pressure system that occurs in the mid-latitude Mediterranean Sea. Medicanes are similar in virtue to a tropical cyclone but have the characteristics of a mid-latitude storm. Medicanes possess a warmer core than most Mediterranean low-pressure systems. Typically the cooler waters of the Mediterranean don't have warm enough water to generate the energy necessary to fuel tropical waves and related thunderstorms that spawn a tropical cyclone. Medicanes have the potential for tropical-storm-force winds, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding .
Rare storms like a Medicane may become more common if climate change makes the Mediterranean Sea warmer.
by mlhiss October 25, 2019
by sheepyone December 10, 2008
One of the dumbest words ever invented by the climate change freaks. Their brilliant linguistic formula is "mediterranean" + "hurricane" = "medicane". It's just so wrong in many ways especially because the good old word "cyclone" was good enough.
by Tree House Eikaiwa September 17, 2023