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Due to last night’s storm, the organization of the festival Julianapop in Julianadorp, near Den Helder, the event cancelled. It emergency weather has caused damage to the site.

‘By the storm damage Unfortunately, Julianapop 2026 cannot take place on the festival grounds continue in a safe and responsible manner‘, they write on Instagram.

It summer weather will continue for a while. After the exceptional heat on Friday, it will be warm again this weekend, with temperatures up to 30 degrees. Fortunately, heavy showers like Friday will not occur for the time being, but there could be heavy rain locally on Sunday rainreports Weeronline.

Various safety regions were busy during the night from Friday to Saturday storm damage. ‘It was in the control room busy, but the situation remained manageable‘, the Utrecht safety region said in a nightly update. This included fallen trees, loose roof parts and blown branches.

The Twente safety region announced around 2 a.m. in the evening and early night 170 incidents to have processed. In Tubbergen and Almelo, roofs were damaged by large amounts of water, in Hengelo trees fell on cars and a stream broke through a catering building at the Bels water mill in Mander. A wedding was taking place there at the time, the safety region reported. The 150 guests sought safety and no one was injured.

The fire brigade was in Groningen busy with fallen trees in Veendam and Muntendam. That caused damage in a number of places gas leaks and damage to homesaccording to the Groningen safety region. Several roads are closed.

It festival site of Julianapopwhich takes place on Saturday in Julianadorp in North Holland, has been severely damaged by the storm, the organization reports on social media. According to local media one of the stages blew over. It is not yet clear whether the festival can go ahead. According to the Noord-Hollands Dagblad, the 5,000 tickets for Julianapop were sold out within ten minutes earlier this year.

The KNMI has code orange around 1:30 am on the night from Friday to Saturday ended. The weather warning was in effect in a large part of the country due to heavy thunderstorms. Throughout the country Code yellow still applies due to some local thunderstorms. By lightning strikes fire broke out in several places.

Including in the province of Utrecht fire was reported. In Hooglanderveen Fire broke out in the roof of a house due to a lightning strike, the safety region reports. The fire spread through the ridge of the roof to the adjacent house.

A fire also broke out in Uddel in Gelderland. The fire in one house with a thatched roof may have been caused by a lightning strikereports the North and East Gelderland safety region.

A fire broke out in Leek, Groningen. According to a local press photographer, this arose due to lightning. There was also a fire in the roof of a house in Breezand in North Holland. It is unclear whether the storm was related to this.

Earlier Friday evening there was, among other things: in Schoondijke in Zeeland and in Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel house fire reported due to suspected lightning.

There is one NL-Alert sent because of it extreme weather in Central Netherlands. ,,Stay indoors. Only call 112 life-threatening situations. Call 0900-0904, no emergency, but fire brigade.”

“The control room is really overwhelmed. We also receive many reports of trees on the road and parts that have blown off roofs,” reports the Flevoland Safety Region.

By one tree on the track drive there no trains for hours between Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn and Driebergen-Zeist. The NS expects this to take until 00:15. Tbetween Utrecht Central Station and Maarssen no trains stop through a tree on the track.

Also between Weesp and Almere Centrum, there are far fewer trains running due to a tree on the track. This lasts until 00:45.

In Odijk drove a car late Friday night at one fallen tree.

The Utrecht Safety Region announced around 11 p.m. that the emergency services were receiving many reports of storm damage and that’s why may take longer before emergency services arrive on the scene. This includes reports of fallen trees, detached parts of roofs and fallen branches.

The north and center of the country will still have to deal with this in the coming hours code orange. In South Holland, the weather warning has now been scaled back to code orange. “Move there strong thunderstorms over our country from the southwest to the north of the country,” reports the KNMI. “These are accompanied by thunder, a lot of rain in a short time, sometimes heavy gusts of wind and (large) hail.”

Lightning strike caused a fire in the attic of a house in Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel on Friday evening. The fire brigade was able to prevent the flames from spreading to other parts of the house. Also in Schoondijke in Zeeland lightning struck a house.

Lightning strikes may also have caused fires in other places in the country. Both were established in Amersfoort and Barneveld major house firespossibly after lightning struck.

Friday evening applies in nine provinces code orange due to the extreme weather. In the south, North Brabant, Zeeland and Limburg, the weather warning has been scaled back to code yellow.

It is on the high-speed line between Rotterdam and Breda train traffic temporarily halted due to the storm. Because of the hard wind drove there are no trains between the cities. This lasted until approx 10:45 PMreports the NS.

Friday evening also applies in Utrecht code orange due to heavy thunderstorms. Previously, the color code was also in force in Zeeland and Limburg, where code yellow now applies again.

There was a very heavy gust of wind in Vlissingen 113 kilometers per hour measured, thus Rain radar. The weather site also reported that the national temperature differences were large just before 10 p.m. between, for example, the Achterhoek, where it was still tropical, and Zeeland, where the temperature dropped to 19 degrees.

The German Southside festival, which attracts almost 60,000 people every year, is Friday interrupted due to heavy rain and thunder. The organization called on visitors to take shelter in the car.

“The festival is temporarily interrupted due to… impending storm. Now go straight to your vehicles; That’s where you are the safest!” the festival organization called out. “Do you have any room left in the car? Then turn on the emergency lights. Are you without a vehicle? Then find a spot in a car with the emergency lights on.”

After about two hours, the programming could continue again.

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There is already a thunderstorm in Belgium erupted for a while. In some places the showers are accompanied by enormous hail balls, like this four centimetersreports HLN. Lightning also struck a store in Aalst, causing major damage and causing trees to fall.

The weather warning code orange is Friday evening extensive to South Holland, Zeeland and North Brabant, KNMI reports. ,,Tonight we can do it locally heavy thunderstorms “, writes the knowledge center. “Code orange applies to this in the south of the country, code yellow applies to the rest of the Netherlands.”

“Thunderstorms have arisen in the west and are moving over Amsterdam. Also up more places are now seeing showers“, according to Weeronline. “We are getting a number of heavy thunderstorms from Belgium.” During thunderstorms there is a chance of heavy wind gusts of 75 to 90 kilometers per hour.

The chance of thunderstorms increases during the evening off again.

Damage has been caused in several places in Limburg by the passing thunderstorms. The wind was blowing in Weert a branch against an apartment buildingalso in Landgraaf, damage was caused to several trees after branches were pulled loose by the heavy gusts of wind.

Multiple locations on the Pinkpop grounds are closed due to the approaching storm. People are gathering above the south of Limburg, where the festival takes place heavy thunderstorms.

The silent disco ‘De Stille Jan’ on the site, among other things, will close. Festival visitors on that side of the site are asked to go to it main area where the big stages are located.

The temperature rose around 4:50 PM on Friday afternoon 35.1 degrees in Ell, Limburg, reports Weeronline. That makes it the first regional very hot day of this year. It will continue for the next few days quite warm.

A very hot day is when the mercury rises above 35 degrees. Two regional very hot days occurred in 2025, on July 1 and 2. Then it even reached 39 degrees in Maastricht.

In De Bilt it remained below 35 degrees on Friday. However, it is above 30 degrees everywhere in the country.