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Rome, September 17, 2020 – Hurricanes don’t just hit the States: an intense Mediterranean cyclone, in transit in the ionian sea, will pounce on the southernmost regions today, especially above Eastern Sicily and Calabria, with storms and strong winds. Actually, this weather phenomenon, in technical jargon. Medicane – It goes to Greece, but it also runs along the Italian coasts.
The alarm comes today from Civil protection, which issued a new warning of adverse weather conditions that follows and expands on the one issued in recent days. The hurricane Medicane, impacting on the different areas of the country, they could determine hydrogeological and hydraulic criticalities.
The Medicane of the satellite
#Weather alert: Mediterranean cyclone in action in the Ionian Sea! The eye begins to see https://t.co/gqLvsfEP5o #medicane # 17novembre #weather pic.twitter.com/HBWtYrNV0t
– meteo.it (@wwwmeteoit)
November 17, 2017
Medicane, the Mediterranean hurricane
I meteorology in 3bmeteo they sound the alarm by talking about Medicane (Mediterranean Hurricane) or the Mediterranean Hurricane. “A Mediterranean cyclone formed in the middle of the Ionian Sea with characteristics very similar to those of a tropical system, they write on the site, as if to turn it into a so-called ‘Medicane’. rare phenomenon in the Mediterranean, but not unique. The pressure inside his eye is less than 1000hPa and the winds that turn around him reach 120km / h, with even stronger gusts, lifting waves even more than 8 meters high. The system moves from east to northeast and is not intended for our coasts, although it will indirectly involve them, but for the Greek ones ”.
Medicane in Sicily and Calabria
The latest 3bmeteo update ‘brings’ medicane to our coasts: “The Mediterranean cyclone in the last hours has shifted its center of gravity towards the Ionian and circles Italy, particularly Sicily and Calabria where rains and storms are ongoing “, they slip this morning.
Medicane is expected in Greece, where it will fall tomorrow, Friday, September 18. with very intense winds and gusts of over 160 km / h and torrential rains. But it is already hurting us too: from its center extended clouds are extending that arc and reaching all of southern Italy, but more incisive rains and storms affect the Ionian Calabria, with peaks of more than 140-150 mm only from midnight in the lower Crotone area, particularly in the town of Isola di Capo Rizzuto. Some rain is pushing Basilicata, Puglia and Cilento north.
Instead I twenty and it can be felt even on our Ionian shores, the most directly involved, with gusts of up to 60 km / h on the shores of Catanese, slightly lower on the Ionian coast of lower Calabria, with the movement of the waves beginning to increase dramatically. In Calabria and Ionian Sicily, up to 2-3 meters long wave is recorded in the most exposed sections.
How a Mediterranean cyclone forms
But how are these Mediterranean cyclones (fortunately quite rare) formed? IlMeteo.it experts explain: “By physical characteristics and by force, Medicane has nothing to envy to the classic tropical cyclones or hurricanes that hit the tropical sector of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The ‘failure’ of the formation of this vortex is largely due to the still very high temperatures of the seas (the latest data show values of about 26-27 ° C in the sectors through which the vortex passes) that continuously feed this cyclone supplying it with new energy until it becomes a Medicane, a tropical cyclone. “
Good-hearted hurricanes
Meteorologists continue: “The essential characteristic is the warm core (warm core in technical terms), very present especially in the lower layers, with temperatures higher than + 2 ° C + 3 ° C (if not more) than the environment These cyclones are capable of retaining a large amount of power during their journey, which often results in intense convective activity in the center, where particularly violent storm systems can hide, and by very strong and turbulent winds with gusts of more than 120 km / h, often in the form of a storm. “
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