A gray sky, rain and a sun that seems to have completely disappeared. With temperatures occasionally rising to twelve degrees above freezing, winter seems nowhere to be seen. And we shouldn’t expect that winter during Christmas either, says weatherman Roland van der Zwaag.
After days of cloudy weather, there is a small glimmer of hope in the sun today. Some clear spells have been predicted. But according to the RTV Drenthe weatherman, the chance of this is very small. “Around this time of year, the sun sets around four o’clock in the afternoon. Today there will be clear skies after it rains again, but they will probably come too late. Quite possibly, a few more rays of sunshine will reach the far west of the province. “
This seems to put an end to the chances of some rays of sunshine before Christmas. “After that it will be chillier and we will have showers from the northwest with possible hail.” But we shouldn’t expect snow, says Van der Zwaag. “For that you have to go to the Alps and Scandinavia, where a lot of snow can fall.”
No snow during Christmas in Drenthe, but the weatherman doesn’t just have bad news. “I think we will have a dry Christmas. So if you want to go outside with your visitors, the weather will be suitable for that. In the morning there will be some mist, during the day it will be mainly cloudy with sparse spells of sunshine. It will be seven to eight degrees. But until then we have to make do with wind, showers and there is a chance of hail.”
The gray picture is Drenthe and the rest of the country is quite rare. The last time the sun did not show itself for so long was almost 32 years ago. To be precise, from February 2 to 11, 1993. If the sun has not yet shone next Wednesday, it will have remained gray longer than in 1993.