The consequences could have been tragic but it was fortunately a lucky escape as no one was hurt when the glass and aluminium of a top floor balcony in Tower Road, Sliema, fell at around 4.45pm this afternoon.
Eyewitnesses said the incident was clearly due to the bad weather.
They said the balcony structure came off in two pieces around 10 minutes apart.
When the second piece fell down, a driver had just exited his car and a passerby was clearing aluminium from the middle of the road.
The second piece landed right in front of a car going towards the Sliema ferries on the opposite side of the road.