Sep 17, 2023
The disaster is Africa's deadliest storm on record; 7 of Africa's top 30 deadliest weather disasters since 1900 have occurred in the past 2
"The Libya flood disaster was driven in part by the meteorological bad luck of Daniel coming ashore directly atop a compact zone of higher elevation. That’s only part of the story, though. Human-induced climate change is loading the dice, enhancing the ability of tropical cyclones and similar storms to produce extreme rain as they draw more water vapor out of oceans into a warming atmosphere."