Medicane makes landfall in Tunisia
EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above) showed a westward-moving medicane which developed a fairly distinct eye shortly before making landfall along the eastern coast of Tunisia on 22 November 2020.A Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image displayed using RealEarth (below) provided a higher-resolution view of the medicane’s eye and convective banding at 1152 UTC.
A plot of surface observations for Monastir’s Habib Bourguiba International Airport DTMB (below) showed that winds gusted to 43 knots as the system made landfall.