By Robbert van der Linde
January 22, 2024 at 2:07 pm Update: 33 minutes ago
Storm Isha was already the seventh storm that the Netherlands had to face this storm season. This is no higher than average for a storm season. It seems like a lot, especially since we’ve had relatively few storms in recent years.
After Henk, Isha was already the second storm in the Netherlands at the beginning of the calendar year. Including Pia and Gerrit, we had four storms in one month.
However, over a longer period of time, this is not an above-average storm season, says meteorologist Alfred Snoek of Weerplaza. The storm season lasts a year and runs from September to September each time. Most storms occur in winter.
“In the last few years we’ve had winters where it hasn’t been that bad. Maybe it seems like we get storms more often now, because people don’t remember as many storms.” Storms on average are also no more powerful, Snoek says.
In the current storm season, the Netherlands has had to deal, to a greater or lesser extent, with storms Babet, Ciarán, Elin, Pia, Gerrit, Henk and Isha. This is much more than last season’s storm. This is Poly, the most violent summer storm ever, which hit the Netherlands on 5 July last year.
Even in the 2019/2020 season there was only one official storm. Ciara secured code orange across the country in February 2020. In 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 we had four storms per season.
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Firefighters remove trees felled by Storm Isha
“British storms” don’t always reach us
In the UK and Ireland, which the Dutch Weather Service works with, there have been a total of nine named storms this season, including Isha.
Some storms did not reach the Netherlands or were no longer storms at that time. The Netherlands does not count as a storm, but the British Isles do. For example, Scotland can prepare for a new storm later this week, but it will not reach the Netherlands.
According to the British meteorological service, the Met Office, the record is eleven storms in one season. This was established in the 2015/2016 season, the first time the weather service began tracking the number of storms per season.
Often storms in IJmuiden and on the Wadden, how is this possible?
- NUjij readers have asked why higher wind speeds are often measured at IJmuiden.
- IJmuiden is located in North Holland, directly on the west coast of the Netherlands.
- The weather station located there therefore receives its “maximum power” from the North Sea, where the vast majority of thunderstorms come from.
- They also receive the full force of the wind on the Wadden Islands and, for example, in Vlissingen and Den Helder.
- If a storm is measured at one of these stations, this applies to the entire country. But in the east, for example, people do not always suffer from thunderstorms.
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2024-01-22 13:07:00
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