You can blame a ‘medicane’ for this week’s deadly flooding in Greece.

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By Zoya TeirsteinNov 17, 2017, 4:18 pm335 pts
Nope, a “medicane” is not a new type of health insurance. It’s a Mediterranean hurricane — such as the one currently developing in the Mediterranean Sea, where warming waters have produced a weather system with the characteristics of a subtropical cyclone. Flash floods linked to moisture from the storm…

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