The State of the Climate 2022 - a multidecadal report and assessment of Malta's climate

Abstract

This is the second major contribution by the author following the first edition published in 2011. This publication is a multidecadal report on the state of Malta’s climate based on the data provided by the Meteorological Office situated at Luqa and compiled and analysed by Charles Galdies PhD on behalf of the National Statistics Office. This publication provides an accessible, authoritative and updated analysis of Malta’s climate based on the latest set of climate-quality records, with descriptions of climate conditions and extremes covering the period from 1952 till 2020. In addition, it also explores the associated fluctuations in key climate variables and indices with those observed during the periods 1961-1990 and 1991-2020 over Malta. This second edition presents a new section devoted to future climate projections for Malta as produced by a number of climate forecasting models. These models furnish information to the scientific and decision-making communities and are used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations to issue its Assessment Reports that are published every six years.