However, the heavy rainfall does not mean that there is suddenly an abundance of water. “There isn’t enough rain for that. So far it only compensates for the drought from earlier,” says Wanders. The same sound is heard from the KNMI. In July, 107 millimeters of rain fell, while that is normally about 85 millimeters in that month. “It was wet, but certainly not exceptionally wet,” Van der Wiel explains those figures.
Rainy month after record drought, what does that do to nature?
