Frank Deboosere warned yesterday that there can be a lot of lightning during heavy thunderstorms. “With very heavy thunderstorms you have up to ten thousand (and) lightning bolts, that is not abnormal.”
It is therefore a good idea to disconnect your appliances from the sockets in good time, as a precaution. The rain can also be heavy, up to 50 liters of water can fall in a short time, and locally it can be even more. Finally, we have to watch out for hail balls again, for the third day in a row by the way.
The RMI has warning code orange activated for the provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, East and West Flanders, with the exception of the coast. Code orange in the event of a thunderstorm means “spread violent thunderstorms with intense rainfall or hailstorms, or violent gusts, or lightning strikes that could cause damage or nuisance on a larger scale. So be prepared.”
In concrete terms for rainfall, it means that 31 to 50 liters of water can fall in one hour. The hailstones can grow 3 to 5 centimeters.
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