It will snow on Monday morning in parts of the Netherlands. It seems like winter, especially in the Northern Netherlands and the Wadden region. But you should not call it a white Easter, because there should be a snow cover on both holidays, weather agency Weerplaza tells NU.nl.
Nevertheless, meteorologist Wouter van Bernebeek finds the weather conditions striking. “When you consider that only five days ago it was locally more than 26 degrees, then this is of course special.”
He continues: “We do not experience such a big transition within a few days in the Netherlands, even though the differences are often large in the spring.”
Exactly ten years ago, the Netherlands experienced another summer warm Easter: on April 24, 2011 it became 26 degrees in De Bilt.
Two years later – when Easter was more than three weeks earlier than in 2011 and comparison is therefore not entirely fair – the Easter eggs had better be hidden indoors. Outside it was only 4.3 degrees.
Frost is also not very exceptional at Easter. Since 1901, it has frozen twenty times on Easter Sunday, about one in six times.
Maybe locally another snow cover (you)
Monday it will remain cold all day, with winter showers. In between, the sun breaks through just as brightly and it becomes another 6 degrees, but the strong wind (in the Wadden area it is even stormy) also makes those moments cold. There will also be (snow) showers on Tuesday evening.
The KNMI has declared code yellow for the entire country on Monday evening. The winter showers are accompanied by heavy gusts of wind, according to meteorologists. It could also be slippery on the road. In the night from Monday to Tuesday, the wind slowly diminishes.
Will there be no snow at all in the coming days that also remains? Van Bernebeek does not rule this out: “Especially Tuesday and Wednesday morning it could really turn a little white in some places due to snow.”
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