Tag: KNMI
Train traffic halted due to storm, Utrecht fire brigade helps North Holland
In North Holland, among others, code red, the heaviest weather alarm, was in force for a long time. “Because they experience more problems there, we are stepping in today,” said…
Train traffic halted due to storm: ‘Don’t go to the station anymore, it’s not wise to travel now’
Train traffic in North Holland, Flevoland, Zwolle, Groningen and Leeuwarden has also been cancelled. “Initially, we only wanted to shut down rail traffic in North Holland, but the storm is…
Downpours provide some relief, but drought persists: ‘Every drop counts’
From tomorrow, farmers in the east of our province will no longer be allowed to collect water from ditches and streams to irrigate their land, for example. The Vallei en…
Record: it has never been dry in De Bilt for so long, should we worry?
The groundwater is, for the time being, still good. This has to do with the buckets of rain that fell from the sky until the end of April. “That’s why…
‘Snuffelmast’ in Cabauw is world famous and provides important meteorological data
In the meadows near Cabauw, a thick pipe sticks straight into the air. The KNMI performs complex measurements there. But no matter how advanced the ‘sniffing mast’ is, for some…
KNMI: chance of northern lights in the coming nights as well
Charged particles from the sun are approaching our atmosphere at high speed. That creates a lot of energy in those charged particles. To get rid of that energy, they emit…
KNMI: Continued chance of northern lights in the coming nights
Charged particles from the sun are approaching our atmosphere at high speed. That creates a lot of energy in those charged particles. To get rid of that energy, they emit…
Code yellow due to dense fog, locally less than 200 meters visibility
Province of Utrecht – The KNMI has declared code yellow for the north, center and west of the country due to dense fog. Local visibility can therefore be less than…
70 years of flood disaster: Meteorologists in De Bilt warned of the storm with telex and telegrams
Today, the Netherlands reflects on the flood disaster of 1953. 1836 people died, tens of thousands of animals did not survive and large areas of Zeeland, North Brabant and South…
KNMI issues code yellow for the province of Utrecht due to slipperiness, in three provinces code orange
Province of Utrecht – The KNMI has declared code orange for three provinces due to treacherous slipperiness due to black ice. The warning from the weather institute in De Bilt…