As Malta and Gozo awoke to hazy skies and dirty cars from last night’s blood rain, the islands look ahead to some cloudy days. While the much-anticipated Carnival forecast isn’t out just yet, the days leading up to the weekend of revelry will be cloudy ones, punctuated with some isolated showers.

Thankfully though, no dramatic storms are predicted, with the strongest winds being seen between the night of Sunday 8th February to the morning of Tuesday 10th February, reaching gusts of Force 7 – not gale-force, but definitely enough to create rough seas that could potentially disrupt smaller ferry travel from Valletta. So if you regularly make use of the Valletta ferries that serve Gozo, Sliema and The Three Cities, you might want to have a back-up route, just in case.  

Temperatures, on the other hand, will be remaining relatively high, with Friday 6th February seeing an unseasonably warm maximum of 20°C, and the lowest real-feel temperature at night not dipping below 8°C. Given the strong winds, though, you’ll still want to hold onto your jacket for now.

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