Screening tests can help tell parents-to-be whether the fetus may be at high or low risk of having a chromosomal abnormality, but the only way to actually know if the baby will be born with a problem in its genetic makeup is by doing diagnostic testing, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The weather averages only tell you a general story of what weather to expect; in reality you can get a cool, wet summer period or a particularly mild winter. Weather from year to year is different. There is not much âfreak weatherâ that threatens Paris, but the summer of 2003 saw a heat wave killing many elderly.
Malta's weather and climate are naturally influenced by the sea and are characteristically Mediterranean, similar to that found in southern Italy or southern Greece. You can roughly divide the year into the summer, rainy and the winter seasons. The islands have a very sunny climate with a daily average of five to six hours sunshine in mid-winter to more than 12 hours a day in summer.