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Storm Daniel, which has killed at least 5,000 people in Libya , with 10,000 more missing.
Storms are known as a “ Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone” or medicane.
Warm sea surface temperatures are the fuel for the more powerful medicanes that climate scientists say will be the new normal.
The climate crisis, counterintuitively, will make these storms rarer but, when they do hit, they could be bigger than ever.
Research predicting increased threat from medicanes due to climate change had been published only 20 months earlier , in January 2019 .
Countries around the Mediterranean must now reckon with how to better protect themselves from the next massive medicane and take proactive measures.
Infrastructure development and fortification of structures can help countries withstand the impacts of extreme climate events.
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