wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24996292

That's a new one !

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

I haven't been following this one carefully but, from what I have seen, I think
the event was a fairly straightforward cut-off low. These happen from time to
time in the Mediterranean. I'm not sure if use of the word "cyclone" is
intended to imply a tropical type of event or if it is used merely as an
alternative to "depression". Although tropical-type systems do occur in the
Mediterranean on rare occasions I don't think this was one of them but, as I
say, I haven't been following it closely so I am open to correction if I am
wrong.

A fairly good reference to tropical-type lows in the Mediterranean can be found
at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:At...opical_cyclone

The event of Jan 1995 was particularly interesting.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.