October was 'cooler and drier' than normal
October was 0.5 oC cooler than the average as well as drier, the Met Office at Malta International Airport said today.
The average temperature last month was 20.2 °C.
The mean maximum temperature last month was 23.4 oC, which was 0.8 oC lower than the mean maximum norm. This trend was similar to October of last year.
The warmest days last month were October 1 and 7 with a maximum temperature of 26.6 °C. The lowest temperature was 11.8 °C on October 20th. The coolest October night was on October 30th 1978, when the temperature fell to 8.0 oC.
The average sea surface temperature was 23.5 °C, which was 0.6 °C higher than the average value for October since 1978.
The wind speed, averaging 7.7 knots was slightly higher than expected for a typical October. For 70% of the time it was in the light speed bracket (1-10 knots). The West NorthWest was the most frequent direction. On October 23rd the maximum gust reached 39 knots from the West by North.
The monthly average humidity reached 75% which was lower than the 30-year mean. No days of fog were registered There were 3 days with thunderstorms (on the 1st, 2nd and 11th), which was three days less that the average number of thunderstorms experienced during October for the past 30 years. The stormiest October was that of 1962 with 12 thunderstorm days.
Precipitation last month totalled 61.2 mm at Luqa airport, which was below the October climate norm by 28.8 mm. The highest amount of rainfall ever recorded at Luqa airport in October was in 1951 with a record total of 476.5 mm.
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Alex Ellul
Nov 2nd 2009, 15:20
@C.Caruana: February, March, April and October were all below normal for the Malta situation. And not only in Malta, but record winter minimums have been recorded for the past two years all over the globe. Should you wish to follow real global temperature readings instead of computer projections based on false science, you will discover the truth. Furthermore you may wish to note that according to the climate variability of the last five millenia, we are in for a cooling phase after a natural warming phase that followed the cooling phase known as the Little Ice Age. see this link: http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a62f87f3970c-pi
Alex Ellul
Nov 2nd 2009, 13:10
DVella: The planet has now initiated a downward temperature curve, that will last 2 decades, possibly a century. This is based on science; the solar minimum currently in its initiation following the maximum we had during the latter part of the last century. But the popes and bishops of the AGW church of Al Gore and latter day warmists do not want to call it global cooling, but a 'minor hiccup' in the predicted destruction of the planet by burning and drowning, based on computer models based on false and rigged science by a British dendrochronologist surname Briffa and 50 scientists who signed the UN's IPCC funded report, on whom the whole global warming religion is based. Google the following: 'Briffa scandal' and see what you get.
C.Caruana (323)
Nov 2nd 2009, 12:46
One single month doesn't approve or disapprove global warming! It is a fact that we are currently in a solar MINIMUM (via http://www.solarcycle24.com/index2.htm) hence "depressed" max temperatures. However, minimum temperatures are still rising over Malta.
DVella
Nov 2nd 2009, 12:07
cooler and drier . . . . this is confusing, how are we supposed to reconcile this factual information with all the hysterical doomsday predictions about global WARMING????