Mike SzydlowskiColumbia Daily TribuneA horrible storm system, called a medicane, hit Libya recently and the associated floods killed as many as 20,000 people in a single day. Even the fiercest hurricanes traditionally only claim a very small fraction of the victims that Libya saw during this storm. It directly borders the Mediterranean Sea but, due to geographic and atmospheric patterns, receives relatively little rainfall and is considered a hot and arid climate. Far different than the 10,000-20,000 people who died in the Libya medicane. If a similar storm hit the neighboring country, Egypt, the death toll would have most certainly been far less.

Source: Libya Today September 20, 2023 16:12 UTC