Traffic ScotlandThe A9 in Scotland is no longer visible due to heavy snowfall
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 22:39
Storm Gerrit has caused a lot of inconvenience in Scotland. Scotland’s longest motorway, the A9, was closed for hours due to heavy snow. Cars were stuck for miles in a thick layer of snow.
A moving train was hit by a tree on the track from Dundee to Glasgow, but no one was injured. According to the Scottish newspaper The Herald tens of thousands of households in the north of the country were left without power. The newspaper also writes that the weather was more extreme than expected. The wind gusts from storm Gerrit reached speeds of almost 130 kilometers per hour.
Gerrit was not only seen in Scotland. At Heathrow Airport in London, pilots had great difficulty landing the plane safely due to heavy gusts of wind.
Gerrit has no major consequences in the Netherlands. It can become a bit stormy on the Wadden Islands with wind gusts of about 100 kilometers per hour until Friday evening, but there is no real storm.
Gerrit Hiemstra
Storm Gerrit owes its name to former NOS weatherman Gerrit Hiemstra. When Hiemstra left NOS at the end of August, it was announced that a storm would be named after him. The NOS nominated him as a tribute to his more than 24 years of employment with the broadcaster.
“So if Gerrit wants to experience something of himself, he has to take the boat back and forth to Texel on Thursday or Friday to get a breath of fresh air on the beach,” his former colleague Peter Kuipers Munneke tipped yesterday.
2023-12-27 21:39:23
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