Looking outside this Tuesday, it’s hard to imagine. But four years ago, on exactly this day, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Netherlands was measured in the municipality of Gilze en Rijen: 40.7 degrees. The contrast with this Tuesday is enormous.
It was puffing on this day four years ago in Brabant and therefore especially in Gilze and Rijen. Pulmonologist Frank Smeenk of the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven warned everyone to stay indoors as much as possible because smog affects the lungs. Keeping calm and looking for the cool was the message and most people did that. In Veghel, volunteers from Stichting Met je Hart visited the elderly to distribute ice cream to them and Omroep Brabant tested how quickly an ice block of thirty kilos would melt in this weather. Well, exactly 12 hours, 26 minutes and 9 seconds!
“The summer feeling is quite hard to find in terms of temperature.”
Because of the temperature record, the municipality of Gilze en Rijen took over the heat pennant from Warnsveld in Gelderland. That still took some effort, but it now hangs at the airbase in the Traditiekamer , a museum about the military history of the region and the airbase.
The contrast with this Tuesday is enormous. “The temperature remains at 20 degrees this Tuesday afternoon,” Roosmarijn Knol of Weerplaza told Tuesday morning in the radio program ‘WAKKER!’ on Omroep Brabant. “There is a cool northwest wind blowing. The summer feeling is therefore quite hard to find in terms of temperature. In terms of sunshine, it will still be quite good, you know. The sun is regularly present. Some cumulus clouds are developing, but the sun still shines easily in between.”
“A jacket or cardigan will come in handy today.”
Very occasionally with that northwest wind comes a single rain shower. “But there are fewer showers compared to Monday,” Roosmarijn emphasized. “Then we had to deal with some really heavy showers, with thunderstorms and hail. Today’s showers are less heavy, so as far as the weather is concerned, it is a reasonably quiet Tuesday. But a jacket or cardigan will come in handy today.”
During the course of the coming night, the shower will increase again. “Then there may also be some thunderstorms and hail. Wednesday morning we still have to deal with the after-effects of those showers. Wednesday afternoon it will be a bit drier again. Even then the temperature will be around 20 degrees.”
“Thursday and Friday are really going to be a bit of stay-in days.”
There is not much improvement in the coming days. “Thursday and Friday it will be a lot cloudier, it will be rainier and the wind will also pick up a bit. Then it will actually be even worse than this Tuesday and Wednesday. Those are really a bit of ‘stay indoors’ days.”
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