A week after Ciara a new storm is imminent: the less intense storm Dennis. It now hangs over Great Britain, tonight and tomorrow morning we will have to deal with it.
“The storm is not as severe as Ciara,” says weatherman Gerrit Hiemstra. “Last weekend Ciara was a heavy storm, wind force 10, the storm Dennis is probably no more than wind force 9, so a normal storm, and then only on the Wadden.”
Before the time comes, the wind in the Netherlands will slowly increase. “That will happen tonight or the first part of the night. Tonight we can have wind force 7 or 8 from the southwest at the sea or the IJsselmeer.” The storm will follow during the night. “There may be heavy gusts of wind at around eighty kilometers per hour, last weekend we were at 120.”
The heaviest wind will be mainly on the coast and the Wadden, says Hiemstra. “In the east of the country there will be no more than a strong wind tomorrow, that is wind force 6. In the interior, the gusts of wind are often more harmful.”
Kill
Dennis is the name that belongs to the low pressure area. “This low-pressure area was close to Iceland this morning. Ireland and Great Britain are already dealing with the storm, on the west coast of England and Wales there is already a wind force 9 and it will continue there for the next 24 hours. For flooding and flooding is now an orange code in force. “
In the UK, the storm has hit today two victims made, Sky News reports. Off the coast of Kent, passers-by found the body of a man who didn’t come home Friday after a night out. A few kilometers away, another man’s body was taken out of the water after a rescue. A tanker anchored off the coast raised the alarm because a man would have been knocked overboard.
16 degrees
The high temperatures are also striking. Tonight it won’t get colder than ten degrees. Hiemstra: “That is already high during the day for this time of year. Tomorrow it will be very soft with 12 or even 16 degrees in the south.”
Dennis’ highlight is mainly tomorrow morning. “Then the wind force on the Wadden has risen to 9. In the afternoon it decreases somewhat.”
Some events in the Netherlands have been canceled in view of Dennis. A carnival parade in Albergen, Overijssel, for example, will not take place tomorrow. There is an afterparty, in a tent that can handle wind force 10, writing RTV East. In Limburg a line has been put through a parade, the children’s parade in Sittard has been moved to March, says 1Limburg.
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