In the south of the country, the temperature has risen above 20 degrees in a number of places. This means that there is the first warm day of the year.
It is not a national hot day, because it must be 20 degrees or more in De Bilt. That will happen tomorrow and will also work on Wednesday, expects meteorologist Wouter van Bernebeek of Weerplaza.
On average, the first warm day falls on April 4, but the end of March is not uncommon. Last year, the temperature rose above 20 degrees for the first time on April 5. The last ‘twenties’ was recorded on November 2.
The earliest local warm day since the start of the measurements was in 1990, when it reached 20.4 degrees on February 24. That was at the now defunct weather station Oost-Maarland, in South Limburg.
Cold air during Easter
From Thursday it is over with the mild weather. Van Bernebeek: “Then the wind turns to the north and the cold air enters the Northern Netherlands. In Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Noord-Brabant and Limburg it can still reach 20 degrees, but in the north it will be 9 or 10 degrees. “
On Friday the whole country has to believe it and it will no longer rise above 10 degrees. Van Bernebeek: “During the Easter weekend it can even freeze a degree at night.”
What it will look like in the long term is still uncertain, according to the meteorologist. “But I will not see the temperatures of the coming days again for the time being.”
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