(JP) – Israel is expecting to be hit by an unusual and extreme rare tropical storm over the weekend, forecasters say. The extreme weather is expected to bring heavy rainfall, flood and strong winds across Israel and parts of Egypt. Medicanes have a mix of tropical and non-tropical qualities and the UK Met Office said on Twitter that the potential medicane is “something that is incredibly rare this far east in the

Mediterranean.” The term, according to AccuWeather, is a combination of the two words “Mediterranean” and “hurricane.” “Although it is not official terminology, the name separates the regional differences that these storms have, compared to tropical storms, cyclones or hurricanes,” the weather website explained. The website’s meteorologist, Tyler Roys, said that medicanes have been reported more often in the last 20 years. READ MORE