Weather Watch: Malta in March
Written by Elizabeth Ayling
Published 01 Mar 2012
The dawning of a new age? Has spring finally sprung? We emerge from a bleak February – the coldest and wettest in most of our living memories – to welcome March which has started this year with clear blue skies and some tempting warmth.
I checked back to what we said about March 2010 and found that it kicked off with some of the lowest recorded night temperatures for that month. With luck, we’ve just broken those kind of records in February. And so March 2012, all hopes are pinned on you panning out as spring in the Med should – warm, welcoming and a precursor of summer.
Our monthly weather watch is brought to us by Tony Muscat who runs it-temp.com, his one-man, incredibly sophisticated home weather station in Mellieha. Here’s this month’s general round up but don’t blame us if you experience March in Malta differently!
March madness
March is the month when the rainfall starts to diminish and the days start to get warmer. It will still be chilly in the evening at around 12 degrees Celsius, occasionally dipping as low as 8 degrees C, but the days can be pleasant with up to 7 hours of sunshine providing an average daytime temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, possibly going up to 24 degrees Celsius.
Even if it gets this warm by day, consider carefully before jumping into the Mediterranean, as the sea temperature is as low as it gets at 15 degrees Celsius.
The rains in January and February will have turned the countryside green, so combined with the pleasant daytime temperatures, it makes it good for country walks in light clothing by day, but do bring jumpers and coats for use at night.
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