The storm, which made landfall this week in Libya, is fairly infrequent, with only a dozen forming between 1982 and 2003.

The term medicane is short for Mediterranean hurricane, and it has been used for more than two decades to identify storms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are still working to understand what drives the formation of these medicanes, as they’re known, and a recent study took ...