(National Observatory of Athens, Greece) (National Observatory of Athens, Greece)

The system intensified to a 989 millibar low very early Friday but has weakened to 994 millibars as of Friday morning, as estimated by the U.K Met Office between Sicily, Malta and Greece.
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone (also known as a "Medicane") strikes Greece near Kalamata, causing power outages and gale force winds near the capital Athens. In the storm's formative stages, heavy rains killed four people in Tunisia.