After a gray and gray winter, the predicted 25 degrees are welcomed with open arms in our country. Although the happiness is short-lived. Temperatures will drop to 13 degrees again on Tuesday. What do we owe this to?
“Nothing special,” is how weatherman David Dehenauw describes the weather phenomenon that is causing temperatures of up to 25 degrees today. For the Belgians, however, it feels like a golden opportunity that no one can pass up: tomorrow the temperatures will drop to below 20 and twenty degrees again. This Saturday will see a warm peak in a spring that has shown itself to be ailing and with a lot of rain for the time being.
“Temperatures in Spain are currently very high due to warm air from the Sahara. That warm air now also reaches our country via the wind. Because it is strong, the air does not have time to lose heat above France,” Dehenauw explains. “You also sometimes see this phenomenon in winter, which means there are peaks with days of 12 to 13 degrees. When the cold front passes, it cools down quickly.”
Heat record
That cold front will not take long to arrive. It will remain fairly warm until Monday with temperatures between 18 and 19 degrees, but on Tuesday the temperature will drop to 13 degrees again. Sun worshipers will therefore have to be patient: “Today is an outlier. We have not yet left for a stable spring period with a week of sunshine. It goes up and down. At the end of next week and into next week we expect temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees again.”
The warm air from the Sahara may also bring sand with it. “During the day this may make the sun shine less brightly, but clouds will rise anyway. This is not only due to the Sahara sand. If it rains, the sand can leave dirty streaks and dots on the car when it is parked outside.”
But that it is hot one day and not the other days? “No special phenomenon. The temperature itself, on the other hand, is exceptional: there is a chance that a heat record will be broken. That’s where the news value lies,” said the weatherman.
The Flemish will benefit from this. Café owners have set up terraces en masse and expect a great day. Barbecue meat will also sell quickly at butchers and supermarkets.
