Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
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mediterranean-tropical-like-cyclone-162-1744471
title:
Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
text:
Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, often referred to as Mediterranean cyclones or Mediterranean hurricanes, and shortened as medicanes, are meteorological phenomena occasionally observed over the Mediterranean Sea. On a few rare occasions, some storms have been observed reaching the strength of a Category 1 hurricane, on the Saffir–Simpson scale, and Cyclone Ianos in 2020 was recorded reaching Category 2 intensity. The main societal hazard posed by medicanes is not usually from destructive wi
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description:
Hurricane-like storms in the Mediterranean Sea
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_tropical-like_cyclone
date created:
2010-07-16T16:56:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:11:31Z
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