The first rural tropical day of this year is a fact. The temperature rose to 30 degrees in De Bilt at 4.40 pm on Friday.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the 30 degrees were already reached in the southern and eastern regions of the country. However, the temperature in De Bilt is leading to speak of a rural tropical day, where the mercury has remained just below 30 degrees in recent days.
Last year the tropical value was reached in De Bilt on June 2. On average, it is somewhere tropical warm in the Netherlands around 12 June.
May 5, 1916 was the earliest first tropical tropical day of the year ever, since measurements began in 1901. In Venlo and Gemert on April 21, 1968, it became 32.2 degrees, making it the first regional tropical day ever.
Risk of heat wave, especially in North Brabant
On average, it is tropical inland four to six times a year according to Weerplaza. A year without tropical days in De Bilt occurred 36 times after 1901. From 1994 it was tropical hot in the Netherlands every year.
In particular, North Brabant still has a chance of a heat wave during this period, according to the weather agency. For that it should only be 25 degrees or more on Saturday. That seems to succeed in many places.
A heat wave occurs when it gets 25 degrees or warmer for at least five days in a row, with the temperature even rising to at least 30 degrees on three days.
On Friday evenings and weekends, heavy showers from the south will provide cooling and the heat will be dissipated, according to Weerplaza.
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