| Why are we obsessed with the climate and why | | | | there are still sunny days with tempertures |
| is it that weather sites online are so well visited, | | | | reaching 15º or 16º. |
| especially the ones labeled "The 10 day Forecast." | | | | The rainfall is low with most rain falling in the |
| Menorca is a wonderfully different holiday island | | | | autumn. However rainfall varies throughout the |
| and yet the question of the weather always | | | | island and is highest in the North and the interior |
| intrigues would be visitors so let's take a few | | | | and lowest in the south eastern parts. Menorca |
| minutes to explain. | | | | has a cool north wind, known as the Tramuntana, |
| Is it me or does everyone like to look at the | | | | which tempers the temperature and has resulted |
| weather forecast for Menorca before going on | | | | in the unique Minorcan landscape. |
| holiday, especially the 10 Day Forecast. Hands up | | | | I have been on holiday in early September and |
| all of you who do the same as me! There is a | | | | suffered gales. In September 2003 there were |
| Menorcan legend that the Winds of Menorca | | | | such adverse weather conditions one evening that |
| change people's personalities! Call me a septic but I | | | | the ferries from Barcelona were delayed and |
| do like the legend, but true or not many visitors | | | | significant damage occured in nearby Mallorca. In |
| do become regulars as a result of their first visit. | | | | October 2008 we chanced the weather with a |
| Obviously the climate has a strong impression on | | | | weeks break and could not have wished for |
| visitors. Menorca's weather, as one would think, is | | | | better weather so late in the season. October can |
| Mediterranean. Summer temperatures reach into | | | | be a wet month but we have taken a holiday in |
| the low 30s but the average is a comfortable | | | | mid October and had glorious weather save for |
| 24ºC. Winter sees a marked drop with | | | | one evening when it rained heavily but it was only |
| some and sunny periods but the average | | | | a passing thunderstorm. |
| temperature is fall in winter to 11ºC, but | | | | |