KNMI terminates code orange for extreme weather – Telegraaf.nl

DE BILT –

The KNMI Friday night around 21:00 warning for extreme weather (code orange) for the provinces of South Holland, Zeeland, North Brabant, Utrecht and Noord-Holland ended. The weather service still maintains code yellow for some of the eastern provinces, which still covers thunderstorms that can be accompanied by heavy winds. “But the worst is over,” said a spokeswoman for the KNMI

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Above the east of the country may still occur strong thunderstorms, which can fall according to the weather service locally heavy precipitation. There can also be hail and wind gusts of 75 km / h. These showers pull slowly eastward and leave the country at the beginning of the night. Elsewhere in the country may still be rain, thunder is possible in which, according to the KNMI.

Lightning

After a lightning strike at Gouda is no train traffic possible from Utrecht to The Hague Rotterdam. The NS buses. The extra travel time is more than an hour. It is not yet known how long the fault persists.

In Zeeland Flanders Zaamslag (municipality of Terneuzen) lightning struck four homes that are all under one roof. After the impact, a fire broke out in one of the cavity walls. There are no injuries, residents are temporarily accommodated by neighbors. Shortly after 20:00, the fire department gave the signal fire master.

Nunspeet fire broke out in a barn with a thousand calves. The fire started by lightning in the roof. One part of the stall was vacated, partly through smoke and roof damage, according to the Safety North and East Gelderland. After an hour the fire was under control. No calves were wounded.

Approximately 3,000 visitors to the Intents Festival in Brabant Oisterwijk were evacuated by order of the organization to a nearby sports hall. The event continued after the storm had passed.

The storm followed the first nationwide tropical day of the year. The highest temperature was measured Friday in the eastern part of North Brabant. In Volkel (municipality of Uden) the mercury rose to 33.6 degrees. In De Bilt was 31.5 degrees. This makes it the warmest June 5 in De Bilt in 1901, according to weather service InfoPlaza

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