With just over two weeks to go, the meteorological winter is gradually coming to an end. With 5 ice days and twice a good deal of snow, we can once again speak of a fairly normal winter for years, says MeteoGroup, partner of DCA Agroweer.
It even looks like the average winter temperature this year will be very close to the normal value of 3,4 degrees. That was a while ago too. We can (so far) add 5 ice days in De Bilt, days on which the temperature remained below freezing for the entire XNUMX hours. More ice days than in the past three winters combined, according to MeteoGroup.
It is also the first winter in years that is fairly normal in terms of temperature. The average winter temperature is likely to be around 3,5 degrees, while 3,4 degrees is the long-term average. This morning there was a substantial snow cover of 5 to 10 centimeters in a region from Nijmegen towards Katwijk, locally with peaks of up to 12 centimeters. It has been years since it has been so white in parts of the Randstad.
That snow will melt away quickly in the coming days, although it will still freeze slightly during the first nights. During the day it gets softer. The extremes are even close together, because on Wednesday it will be a bit of spring with lots of sun and temperatures in the south of about 15 degrees. It will also remain soft in the somewhat longer term, but will become more volatile.
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