Tag: KNMI
New Year’s Eve live blog: record sale of fireworks, minister warns rioters
Today, 08:12 • 3 minutes reading time Province of Utrecht – One more day and the year 2022 is over. In this live blog an overview of the most important…
2022 was dry, warm and above all very sunny
2022 was also marked by a number of severe storms and other extreme weather. It was especially hit in February, with no fewer than four storms. First an unnamed storm…
Dozens of accidents due to slipperiness, Rijkswaterstaat warns not to go on the road
Province of Utrecht – The Central Netherlands police are busy with dozens of reports about accidents due to slipperiness. “At the moment we mainly see some minor injuries and especially…
Tonight probably again ‘treacherously slippery’ in the province, code orange issued
The warning applies to the entire country tonight, although the time at which it takes effect differs per province. This is because tonight a precipitation area will move across the…
Slipperiness and fog: spreading teams in rope and many traffic jams
The KNMI has issued code yellow for the province of Utrecht, among others. In a large part of the country it can be slippery in places, especially on (bicycle) bridges…
KNMI warns of fog in Utrecht and slipperiness in the northeast of the country
There is also a weather warning for the northeast of the country due to freezing of snow residues and wet road sections. Code yellow applies to the provinces of Friesland,…
KNMI measures most solar radiation ever, record broken in 1976
In 2085, the KNMI expects a normal value of 219 W/m2. This is an increase of more than 6 percent compared to now. “We therefore expect that the current trend…
Amersfoort residents build climate cabinets for the garden: ‘First see if the soldering works’
The group will build its own measuring cabinets to study the climate in their garden. Marijn, one of the participants, has just unpacked both boxes and turned on the soldering…
KNMI: Warm days are now even warmer due to climate change
On average, the whole world has already warmed by more than 1 degree Celsius per year compared to 1850, explains Van der Wiel, but there are regional differences. For example,…