Temperatures to ramp up this week, with real feel of 40 degrees by Sunday
A scorching five days start from Wednesday
Summer temperatures will ramp up this week, with the real feel reaching 40°C by Sunday, according to Met Office forecasts.
Temperatures are expected to feel as high as 39°C for four days from Wednesday. The temperature will be a high of 36°C but feel like 40°C on Sunday. The wind will not exceed a low of Force 3.
A Met Office spokesperson said the 'feels like' temperature is high as Malta is experiencing very dry weather with very low humidity.
The Met Office said a high-pressure system is bringing prolonged dry and settled weather known as Omega Block, which gets its name from the upper air pattern which looks like the Greek letter omega.
This consists of a combination of two cut-off lows with a single blocking high sandwiched between them, thus creating a persistent slack area of high pressure over the Mediterranean Sea.
At present no heat waves are expected over the Maltese Islands as the definition of a heat wave requires three consecutive days of temperature 5°C or more above the mean, which is 31.7°C .
The temperatures this week will be the hottest of the year so far, but they will not be unusual.
July 22 last year saw a temperature of 40.5°C. The average temperature for July 2025 was 28.4°C, 1.5°C warmer than the climatic norm of 26.9°C.
The real feel temperature on Monday was 33 degrees.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Malta was 43.8°C on August 9, 1999, during a heatwave.