'Medicane' left Libya trapped between floods and the sea
Sep 13, 2023
Tripoli [Libya], September 13: It's the heaviest rainfall Libya has seen in the past 40 years. Storm Daniel had already caused severe floods in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Then, above the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea, it swelled to a so-called "medicane" - a portmanteau of "Mediterranean" and "hurricane."