It is already the last day of July, the time for RTV Drenthe weatherman Hans Nienhuis to list the precipitation figures. As far as he is concerned, one conclusion is clear: the past month was too dry for the time of year.
“Normally there is 80 to 90 millimeters of precipitation in July, well no weather station in Drenthe comes close this year.”
According to Nienhuis, the figures still differ somewhat. “The least precipitation fell in the Wijk this month, where 33 millimeters were measured”. Assen and Diever, for example, come out at 48 millimeters. “The weather station in Wijster had the most with 59 millimeters. But the picture is slightly distorted. Because 17 millimeters of it actually fell on the last day of June. That day is included in July. That happens every month.” So the rain that still falls today counts in the August figures,” explains the weatherman.
According to Hans Nienhuis, there will actually be some rain today. Today and tomorrow we will reach around 21 degrees. The days after it will be warmer thanks to a southerly wind. Then towards the weekend it will be a bit cooler again, because the wind then changes again.
“That is also what we saw throughout July. It was an alternation of cool north-westerly winds with warm southerly winds. And that pattern continues into August,” the weatherman of RTV Drenthe expects.