October nights were the warmest in 83 years, the Malta International Airport's Meteorological Office said yesterday.

The average night temperature was 18.6°C, more than half a degree warmer than the average of the past 83 years.

The warmest night last month was that between the 21st and 22nd when the temperature reached 22°C. The last night of the month was the coolest with the mercury creeping down to 15.3°C.

A total of 94 millimetres of rain was measured throughout the month but almost half of that was recorded within a few minutes on the morning of October 4. The wettest October since 1922 was that of 1951 when more than 470 millimetres of rain drenched the Maltese islands.

The Met. Office said the average daily maximum temperature last month was 24°C. This was just under two degrees lower than the average coolest temperature recorded since 1922, October 1936, which had an average temperature during the day of 22.1°C.

The warmest October days recorded were in 2001, at an average daily temperature of 27.4°C.

Last month there was an average of almost six hours of bright sunshine a day, which is three hours less than an average October.

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