Storm Daniel formed as a low-pressure weather system and became blocked by a high-pressure system, dumping extreme amounts of rain on Greece and Libya.
The Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast, setting off flooding that’s believed to have killed thousands of people, is the latest extreme weather event to carry some of the hallmarks of the global climate crisis, scientists say.
Medicanes form once or twice a year in the Mediterranean, and are most common from September to January. They're not generally true hurricanes, but can reach hurricane strength on rare occasions, said Simon Mason, chief climate scientist at the Columbia Climate School’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society.
What's more, he said, human activity and climate crisis together “are producing compound effects of storms and land use.” But the warm water that allowed Daniel to intensify and fed the exceptional rainfall are a phenomenon being observed around the globe, said Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center.
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