Thursday, June 23, 2016

Thunderstorms and hail cause nuisance in North Brabant – NU.nl

On the A2 and A67 south of Eindhoven was raided traffic around 21:00 by the hail. Many motorists on the A2 near Valkenswaard were forced to stand still during the storm.

The hailstones have burst the windows of some cars, says a spokesman for the vid. The AA reports that parts of a motorway at Venray impassable by fallen trees.

And also get calls from homes in Southeast Brabant from many places damaged by the storm, according to Omroep Brabant .

Video: Heavy hailstorms in North Brabant

image: Arno Coenders

Monitoring Centers

the control rooms of the safety regions were inundated with requests for help, reported security region of Central and West Brabant.

Weatherman Reinier van den Berg spread through his Twitter account a video of a massive hailstorm in the Brabant Bergeijk, where large hailstones on a terrace and from the window of a house clattered . Van den Berg spoke of a “megabui” and a “supercell” which drew from Deurne to Venray. A supercell is the worst type of storm known.

Deurne cars are damaged and killed many windows of cars and homes, reported victims on social media. Ice chunks were there from the sky, reports one of the victims on Facebook.



Code Orange

The council of the municipality of Valkenswaard was a Thursday to be canceled by a flood in the town. The hall, council chamber and an elevator shaft walked damage, reports Omroep Brabant.

The KNMI Thursday night issued a code orange for severe thunderstorms, hail and wind gusts in the middle south of the country is expected to go cause considerable inconvenience. At 23:00 the warning only applied for Noord-Brabant and Limburg.

The weather service warns people to take measures to prevent damage or injury from the thunderstorms. The traffic should keep the weather in mind

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Water Smoothness

The Traffic Service (VID) again provides difficult driving conditions through water on the road, winds, poor visibility and water smoothness.

it is also advised to avoid open water and open areas and not to shelter under trees.

In the night from Wednesday to Thursday drew a storm on the Randstad. In the provinces of North and South Holland and Utrecht, this led to a lot of inconvenience; the Association of Insurers estimates the damage at around 20 million

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View the current situation on the road

by: NU.nl/ANP

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