Storm Carmel was an extratropical cyclone that was part of the

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. Storm Carmel was named by the

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on 16 December 2021. It is the first storm in the history of Israel to receive a name.

Preparations

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

is expected to be impacted by

winter storm A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessa ...

Carmel.

Impact

Israel was heavily affected by Storm Carmel. At Ben Gurion Airport, more rain fell in two days than the monthly average.

Mikveh Israel Mikveh Israel ( he, מִקְוֵה יִשְׂרָאֵל, 'Hope of Israel') is a youth village and boarding school in the Tel Aviv District of central Israel, established in 1870. It was the first Jewish agricultural school in what is now Isra ...

saw of rainfall over those two days ( in one day), the third highest recorded rainfall there in the past century. Cyprus suffered no significant damage in the storm. In Israel, two homeless people died in the coastal city of

Bat Yam Bat Yam ( he, בַּת יָם or ) is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the Central Coastal Plain just south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area and the Tel Aviv District. In 2020, it had a population ...

and another in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

, from

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. Another death happened because of a car accident caused by torrential rains, bringing the death toll up to 4.

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Impact

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