The weather forecast has been predicting a rainy start to the week for quite a while, but today’s torrential rainfall seems to have taken the Maltese islands by surprise.
Several videos are currently making the rounds on social media, the most horrendous of which depicts cars on the Bugibba waterfront partially submerged by the freak rainstorm.
Among the striken areas are Bugibba, Naxxar, Msida, Birkirkara and San Gwann. It-telgha t'Alla u ommu, in the limits of Naxxar, is said to be particularly difficult to manouvre through, due to rainwater and a large number of stones and rocks strewn across the street.
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Now, commuters find themselves not only battling rush-hour traffic but also the insane flooding that some major arteries have accumulated.
Was your town severely hit by today's rainfall?