January 8, 2024 at 11:02 am Update: 6 minutes ago
On Monday morning in the south of the Netherlands the weather is slippery in some places because it is snowing. The KNMI has issued the code yellow for the provinces of Limburg and the eastern part of North Brabant.
Locally in the southern provinces several centimeters of snow could fall. That’s why the KNMI warns against slippery roads. Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) agrees with the warning and urges people to exercise caution on the road.
In the afternoon the snowfall leaves the country towards the south-west. Then it becomes dry.
Since Sunday afternoon, RWS has spread around 1.4 million kilos of salt across the country to avoid slippery conditions. Salt spreaders were busy on national highways in the provinces of North and South Holland, Utrecht, Overijssel, Zeeland, North Brabant and Limburg, Rijkswaterstaat reported on Monday.
On Saturday, the RWS began spreading across the north and east of the country to prevent slippery conditions. The organization expects it to remain dry on Monday and does not believe it will need to spread again.
Busy day for roadside assistance
The freezing cold also causes gatherings at the ANWB Roadside Assistance. According to a spokesperson, there was a spike in the number of reports of car breakdowns early Monday morning. These were mainly starting problems, broken batteries and frozen locks.
“It’s a busy day for roadside assistance. Apparently, by the end of the day we will receive around six thousand requests for assistance,” says the spokesperson. On a normal Monday the ANWB receives around four thousand reports.
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This means code yellow
The KNMI issues four different weather codes: green, yellow, orange and red. The Meteorological Institute describes the yellow code as follows:
“There may be a risk of bad weather. These are weather situations that often occur in the Netherlands and you should pay attention to them, especially when travelling. The yellow code can be issued 48 hours before the weather phenomenon occurs. The the certainty is at least 60 percent.”
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