Dec 9, 2023 at 4:04 PM Update: 27 minutes ago
2023 is the second wettest year on record. An average of 1,037 millimeters of rain fell across the country this year, instead of the 853 millimeters that normally falls. Only 1998 was a wetter year with 1,109 millimeters.
And with three weeks to go, you would think that 2023 could easily beat 1998. But it seems that with a total of approximately 1,100 millimeters in 2023, the net will not make it.
This year is only the fourth time since precipitation measurements began in 1906 that more than 1,000 millimeters of rain has fallen across the country. This only happened in the past century in 2001 (1,002 millimeters) and in 1966 (1,005 millimeters).
The most precipitation fell this year in South Holland, North Holland, the Wadden Islands, the Veluwe and the Limburg hills. North Holland took the cake with more than 1,300 millimeters of rain this year.
Only four dry months this year
Of the twelve months, only four were dry. The other eight went according to plan Weatheronline “wet to very wet”. January was the wettest month of January, while February was remarkably dry again. Then the heavens opened again in March, putting it in sixth place on the list of the wettest March months.
April and the beginning of May were also wet, but then it became extremely dry. It didn’t rain for 39 days and that was a record.
September was also remarkably dry, but October made up for that by becoming a soaking wet month. Twice as much rain fell as normal and it became the third wettest October on record. November also played nicely, because Weeronline calculated that it rained every day from October 18 to November 16. This almost made it the wettest autumn ever.
The last month of the year started off mainly cold, but dry. Still, it looks like it will rain the Dutch way in the coming weeks. But unfortunately, we can no longer achieve a record with that.
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2023-12-09 15:04:07
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