Second heat wave of the year after exactly five days
The second official heat wave of the year has ended, after exactly five days, the minimum number to speak of a real heat wave. Nowhere in the country did it get even warmer than 25 degrees, so even locally there was no longer any question of heat waves, Weeronline says.
In various places in the south of the country, including Maastricht, Gilze-Rijen and Horst, the heat lasted seven days. The heat wave lasted five days at the KNMI central measuring station in De Bilt.
Since the turn of the millennium, the Netherlands has shown sixteen rural heat waves, just as much as in the entire twentieth century, KNMI figures. Heat is increasingly common in our country in the warming climate. The average temperature also rises, and faster than the world average: last year it was almost 3 degrees warmer in the Netherlands than the early twentieth century. This is partly because the temperatures above land rise faster than above the sea.