Although the second week of December has arrived, winter seems far away. Soft air flows into the province from the southwest and ensures remarkably high temperatures.
Ice skates, snowmen and winter coats; they belong to December, but not yet this year. “It is more than 13 degrees and it will be that tomorrow. It looks like October,” says RTV Drenthe weatherman Roland van der Zwaag. “We are in a very mild phase.”
The mercury also continues to peak at night. “The temperatures will hardly drop under the cloud cover,” Van der Zwaag looks ahead. “We have very mild nights, with temperatures in the double figures.”
The daily record could even be broken on Wednesday. The highest temperature recorded so far for December 10 was in 1994, when it was 13.2 degrees in Eelde. “We seem to be far above 13 degrees tomorrow,” the weatherman expects.
The following days the temperature drops slightly. The afternoon temperature will then be around 10 degrees. “But that is still 3 degrees higher than the average,” says Van der Zwaag. Even then, winter is still a long way off.