The weather institute will release ‘code yellow’ late on Saturday evening. The slipperiness has to do with winter showers and applies to the provinces of Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland, Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen.
Wet road sections can freeze, causing slipperiness, the KNMI reports. Road users must therefore watch their step.
The smoothness disappears mid-Sunday morning.
Rijkswaterstaat reports that on Saturday alone, 800,000 kilos of salt were sprinkled on Dutch roads to combat slipperiness. The road manager’s vehicles drove a total of more than 14,000 kilometers on this day. Rijkswaterstaat keeps track of the data on a special spreading card.
