‘L-irwiegel’ and the 12 days of Christmas

Still a child, Sean Vella Caruana was fascinated whenever he heard his father, a teacher, talk about a Maltese weather-predicting tradition.The tradition, L-irwiegel, involves monitoring the weather during the 12 days leading up to Christmas Day – from December 13 to 24. Each of the 12 days is believed to predict how the weather will...