Did Indianian summer take a vacation?
At this time it's 5°C, having had a light rain, all day yesterday.
Currently:
At this time it's 5°C, having had a light rain, all day yesterday.
Currently:
Did Indianian summer take a vacation?
The cold record broken on Sunday was thanks to a combination of rain, an easterly wind, and thick cloud cover. The air cooled down due to prolonged rainfall, a strong easterly wind blew icy air into the Netherlands, and a thick blanket of clouds shielded the sunlight and prevented it from warming up the environment.
DeepL Translator said:Another record: warmest 24 October ever measured at De Bilt
October 24, 2019 18:00 hrs. Restated 18:13 hrs.
Did you also enjoy the mild weather today? Today is the warmest 24 October ever measured in De Bilt. In the course of the afternoon, the temperature rose to 19.6 degrees Celsius. It is the fourteenth time this year a heat record is broken.
This is reported by Buienradar [in Dutch]. The previous heat record of 19.4 degrees on this day (since the beginning of the measurements in 1901) dates from 1995.
Maastricht
The weather record in De Bilt is an official record. If an even higher temperature is measured elsewhere outside the KNMI's official observation, this is referred to as a national record.
That was not broken this year: the national heat record on 24 October, measured across all KNMI weather stations, dates back to 1971. This was established in Maastricht and remains at 21.8 degrees.
Many heat records
Today's heat record is this year's fourteenth heat record. On the other hand, there is only one cold record. That was on 6 October. On average, eight date heat records and one date cold record are registered each year in De Bilt.
Philippe Schambergen of Buienradar says: "Without climate change, we would have had approximately the same number of heat and cold records every year, but in recent years we have more and more heat records than cold records."
This is clearly shown in the graph below with the number of day records per year since 1901:
According to Schambergen, many more heat records will probably be set in the coming years.
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