The Mediterranean Medicane Watch: How Summer's Heat Fuels Autumn's Superstorms
Through June's intense heatwaves the Mediterranean is storing heat earlier and faster than usual, with localised marine-heatwave anomalies up to +5C. That warmth is the potential fuel for medicanes, the basin's rare tropical-like cyclones, which form from autumn into early winter. But a warmer sea raises the risk; it does not guarantee a bad season, because a destructive medicane still needs the right autumn trigger.