The Netherlands is now officially in mid-winter

DE BILT – Our country is currently experiencing an intermediate winter. Such a relatively cool period in spring is accompanied by a lot of rain and extreme temperature drops.

There used to be only one winter a year. But due to climate change, winter months are becoming more common. In the middle of spring it suddenly becomes winter again. “The mid-winter phenomenon is certainly not new,” says meteorologist Thomas Indra of MeteoScience. “In our archives we found reports from July 1944, when there was suddenly ice in the Gelderland town of Warnsveld. And especially the elderly will remember the summer snow of July 1978.”

The mid-winter is short-lived. According to the weather bureau, temperatures will rise slightly from Saturday. Two weeks later the next mid-winter begins. According to Indra, the time when we only had one winter a year is over: “I hate to say, but we will see intermediate winters more often. In a few years, thirty or forty winters a year will be very normal.”