Medicane

Quick meaning: Medicane is a noun meaning (meteorology, informal) A hurricane-like storm that forms in the Mediterranean Sea.

Meaning

(meteorology, informal) A hurricane-like storm that forms in the Mediterranean Sea.

Example Sentences

Thus, it is essential to study medicanes and calibrate the numerical weather prediction models in order to simulate them adequately.

After pounding parts of western and central Greece meteorologists have predicted a rare Mediterranean hurricane-like storm, or medicane, is headed south towards the island of Crete.

Mediterranean tropical-like storms (the “medicane” term has been proposed for these storms) evolve under significantly different environmental conditions compared with the tropical ones.

The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a “medicane”, a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scientists believe will intensify in a warming world.

Word Forms

• medicanes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mistral, temporale, meltem, mistrail, antimonsoon, meteor.

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