Time to start saying goodbye to summer.
After another relentlessly hot summer, cooler days seem to be very close at hand for the Maltese islands…
Local weather page ‘Maltese Islands Weather’ took to social media to reveal that, according to the latest long-term maps, the first zone of autumnal instability across the central Mediterranean is set to take place between 19th and 26th September.
Said instability is likely to lead to rainfall.
“No maps give the possibility of any significant rain before then. Maps this early on tend to give a regional indication. This map means that there will be instability across the central Mediterranean,” the page wrote.
“Details of how this would affect us will only be clear at a closer date,” it continued.
Maltese Islands Weather highlighted that, even though the dates in question seem to be rather far away, “such indications have very rarely proven [them] wrong in [their] 10 years of weather forecasting.”
The Facebook page went on to give some insight into the 2021/2022 rainfall year, which ran from September 2021 to August 2022.
586mm of rainfall were recorded in the past rainfall year – slightly above the 553.2mm climate average – despite the fact that only three months were ‘wetter than average’ (October 2021, November 2021, and May 2022).
On the other hand, September, December, January, February, March, and April were ‘drier than average’. The remaining three months witnessed ‘around average’ rainfall.
Do you enjoy autumn in Malta?
Facebook/Maltese Islands Weather & Instagram/white.mt featured on Malta Photograpy