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News from the NOS•yesterday, 15:21•Modified yesterday, 21:12
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Tonight there may well be a whole lot of rain in the southwest of the Netherlands and tonight, KNMI warns. Until finally Saturday afternoon, 20 to 40 mm of rain are expected, in some locations even much more than 50 mm. These quantities can direct to flooding, warns the meteorological institute.
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The KNMI has for that reason yellow warning code issued for the provinces of North Brabant, South Holland, Limburg and Zeeland. The yellow code is the lowest warning code.
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Owing to the envisioned negative weather and the countrywide prepare strike, it was active on Dutch roads currently in the early afternoon. Around 5:30 pm they were being there according to the ANWB 115 website traffic jams in the Netherlands, totaling all-around 700 kilometers. From 6:30 pm the targeted traffic jams have diminished yet again.
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In Gelderland the streets were flooded in the early evening due to significant rain, experiences Omroep Gelderland. The streets of Arnhem and Oosterbeek, amongst other folks, were being flooded, in Arnhem a tree fell on a street. Absolutely nothing is identified of the injury.
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Area floods
The cause of the massive quantity of rain is the downpours that enter the region from the North Sea. This is a lower-strain location that is relocating really little by little in the place to the east, clarifies meteorologist Gerrit Hiemstra. “These are the predicaments that can bring about a ton of rain in the Netherlands.” Warns of area floods tonight and tonight. “Flooded streets, flooded tunnels, overflowing sewers, these varieties of phenomena.”
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The best hazard of flooding is discovered in the area approximately in the triangle The Hague-Gorinchem-Zierikzee. About the study course of Saturday, the downpours will go to the southeast, KNMI predicts.
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