At the end of the meteorological summer, it is time to take stock of the weather balance of the past three months. With relatively wet July and August, it seems to have been a bad summer. Still, at 17.7 degrees, it was 0.2 degrees warmer than an average summer, according to figures from the KNMI.
“Because we have had exceptionally warm and dry summers in the past three years, it may now look like a bad summer,” says NOS weather forecaster Willemijn Hoebert. “But if we look at the temperatures of the past thirty years, this summer has really just been an average Dutch summer.”
Average up through June
The average temperature now amounts to 17.7 degrees, mainly due to the warm days in June. It was the warmest June since records began in 1901. And last summer’s only tropical day fell on June 17. Then it became 30.8 degrees in De Bilt.
The highest temperature was also measured on that day, in Hupsel in Gelderland it was 34 degrees. Not only the hottest day was measured in June, but also the lowest temperature was in that month. In Twente, the mercury did not rise above 4.8 degrees at night on June 13.
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