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Wet, wetter, wettest. It's raining again
With barely a week to go before meteorological spring is over, the conclusion is justified that spring is particularly wet. On Friday and Saturday it was raining again, now it was the southwest's turn. They also caused farmers a lot of work and headaches every week.
It is becoming a sad, but almost familiar image: flooded plots and farmers digging ditches in an attempt to discharge the excess water.
Today too, the focus of the showers was in West Brabant.
May is well on its way to becoming the wettest month since measurements started in 1906. In De Bilt, 24 millimeters have fallen up to and including May 97, compared to 59 millimeters normally. However, there have already been many more cases locally. More rain than average fell in March and April.
The comparison with 1983 is regularly made. Then 284 millimeters fell in the spring. According to meteorologists, the current spring is on course to end just behind with an expected precipitation sum of approximately 250 millimeters. The wet spring does not mean that a wet summer will follow. The summer of 1983 is in the top ten warmest summers since 1901 and also ended up in the top five driest summers.
It is not only wet in the Netherlands. Belgium, Germany, France and the UK are also experiencing wet conditions. That could hold some promise for the growing season that has only just begun.
Jurphaas Lugtenburg
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