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Originally Published 2 months ago — by BBC
Hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm of the year, has made landfall in Jamaica, causing widespread fear, destruction, and evacuations, with authorities warning of catastrophic flooding and life-threatening conditions.
Originally Published 2 months ago — by CBS News
Hurricane Melissa has intensified to a Category 4 storm, threatening Jamaica, Haiti, and surrounding areas with catastrophic flooding, landslides, and infrastructure damage, prompting emergency responses and evacuations.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Space.com
Satellites captured images of a rare Mediterranean hurricane, known as a medicane, named Daniel swirling above the Sahara Desert and causing catastrophic flooding in Libya. The storm formed above Greece and gained strength from warm Mediterranean waters. Medicanes are relatively rare but can reach the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. The storm set a new daily rainfall record in Libya, leading to the collapse of dams and a state of emergency declaration. Satellite imagery showed the monster storm above the desert surface. Climate change is believed to be increasing the intensity of medicanes, making them more potent and rainfall associated with such storms more extreme.