Saturday will be the last day with freezing cold for the time being, with temperatures that are predicted to barely or not rise above freezing point. Then it changes again. On Sunday there may first be light winter precipitation, with melting snow or freezing rain, and temperatures will rise to 2 degrees in the High Fens and 6 to 7 degrees in the center and 10 degrees at the sea. On Monday and Tuesday the maximums are even higher, up to 13 degrees. “We have indeed gone from a mild period to an icy period,” says weatherman Frank Deboosere. “And from Sunday it will be wet again, with more wind and mild temperatures.”
Deboosere does not call these fluctuations very exceptional. “You have that in most winters, just like you have in spring, summer and fall,” he says. “Look at the past year. Fantastically warm in June and September, all that rain in between. That’s what’s typical about our weather, that it goes back and forth like that. That makes the job of weatherman so fascinating.”
He also refers to 2012. “Then it was incredibly hot on January 1, then it started to storm and by mid-January it was freezing. February was also very cold, with even a cold wave, and on March 15 it was already 20 degrees. It goes up and down, it has always been that way. We are just more concerned with that now.”
What would be worse would be if we had freezing cold all winter long, says Deboosere. “And in that respect it has been a remarkable winter in Scandinavia. There they have freezing cold that has lasted for weeks (with temperatures sometimes reaching -36 degrees, ed.) and that will only make way for milder weather within some time.”
The fact that it is now getting milder here does not mean that the freezing cold is a thing of the past. “It is quite possible that there will be snow again in mid-February,” says Deboosere.
Storm Isha
The milder weather from Sunday will be accompanied by strong gusts of wind here and there. The result of storm Isha, which seems to mainly manifest itself above the United Kingdom. There they fear wind gusts of up to 110, 120 or even 130 kilometers per hour and large amounts of precipitation. This also appears to be happening in our country on Sunday night and Monday. This may be accompanied by gusts of wind up to locally 90 kilometers per hour or slightly more.
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Monday will also initially be heavily cloudy with rain and a lot of wind, with gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour or even more. Later it will become drier with clear spells. Maximums of 7 to 11 degrees, up to even 20 degrees more than a good week ago.
Tuesday morning it will be sunny in many places with high cloud fields. Later in the day more clouds and rain, with temperatures up to 6 to 11 degrees. Later in the week the mercury could even climb to 12 degrees. So no winter weather for a while.