A heat wave has been announced for next week, but tonight the opposite happened: an extremely low temperature of -0.46 degrees Celsius was measured in the Schoorl dunes. A record, because never before has such a low temperature been measured in the high summer period.
Peter Bliek is a frost hunter – always on the hunt for the lowest temperatures. “As a child I didn’t like heat, and I always became happy when the weather got colder,” he says at the measuring station in the Schoorlse Duinen.
A big contrast, because the beach where a freezing temperature was measured early this morning, is now full of beachgoers who are already taking a run-up to the heat wave that is predicted for next week.
Unique for high summer period
According to Bliek, it has never happened before that frost has been measured in the high summer period, from July 20 to August 21. And how is that possible now, in a relatively warm week? Due to the drought, there is little evaporation of condensation, which cools the air even further.
Bliek will in any case celebrate the record today. “Sure. I’m going to have a nice cup of coffee on it.”
