2019-20 Mediterranean tropical cyclone season (Binbin0111)

Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, often referred to as medicanes (a portmanteau of Mediterranean hurricanes) but sometimes also as Mediterranean cyclones or as Mediterranean hurricanes, are meteorological phenomena observed over the Mediterranean Sea. On a few rare occasions, some storms have been observed reaching the strength of a Category 1 hurricane.[1] The main societal hazard posed by Medicanes is not usually from destructive winds, but through life-threatening torrential rains and flash floods.