weather and climate

How many more sinkholes can the city of Eindhoven handle? Now a large gaping hole has spontaneously fallen in the Kalverstraat. Or does the Eindhoven city council, led by Mayor Dijsselbloem, secretly have plans for an underground?

A hole appeared in the middle of a carriageway in Kalverstraat on Monday. From a distance it looks like a puzzle piece. According to a 112 correspondent, the sinkhole is two meters deep. “And it seems as if the hole continues meters under the road surface. All the sand underneath has been washed away,” he told Omroep Brabant.

Kalverstraat has been cordoned off. There is one lane left for traffic. It is not yet known when the hole will be closed.

Drench
There have been about ten large holes or subsidence in Eindhoven recently. These are probably the result of the recent soaking wet period.

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The sinkholes are caused by the subsidence of sewer pipes. You can read how that works here

2024-01-15 21:18:02


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The weather will change significantly in the coming days: it will stop raining (!) and it will be cold. Next week you can skate on flooded meadows and other natural ice rinks.

Weatherman Wouter van Bernebeek from Weerplaza can be brief about it as Koen Wijn from the morning program Wakker! asks if we can skate next week: “I think so.”

According to Van Bernebeek, it will still be very wet and mild on Wednesday at 12 degrees. “But that is going to change. Thursday and Friday are transition days, but from the weekend onwards it will be dry and a lot colder. The wind then turns to the northeast and there is quite a bit of cold there.”

Next week it will be quite freezing at night. “At night it can be -5, -6 or -7 and during the day it also remains below zero. And then you can quickly skate on all those flooded meadows and ice rinks.”

2024-01-03 07:16:08


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A complete new residential area on the Langlaar in Eindhoven is in danger of having a wet start to Christmas because the water cannot drain. The enormous rainfall of the last few days should sink into an underground drainage system, but the ground is completely saturated.

The water is already in the crawl spaces of the rental houses. The downspouts of the houses are not connected to the sewer, but end just above the ground on a grid. The water should slowly sink into the ground through that grid, but that is no longer possible due to the heavy rain that has fallen in recent days.

The fire brigade tries to prevent the water from flowing into the houses with a pump. “In some houses it is only a few centimeters before it flows from the crawl space into the homes,” says a 112 correspondent.

The water should sink into the ground (photo: SQ Vision).

The crawl spaces of the houses are connected to each other, which means that the fire brigade needs heavier guns, the 112 correspondent sees. Population Care of the municipality of Eindhoven has been called on to help think about a solution.

It keeps raining
For the time being, it does not appear that the situation in the new housing estate is improving. It will rain for a long time at times in the coming days, Weerplaza said. Only on Tuesday will it be dry for almost the entire day for the first time since.

New residential area
The houses on the Langlaar are part of the large new construction project ‘Buurtschap te Veld’, where 670 houses will ultimately be built. The district is located in the north of Eindhoven, near the A50.

It is like mopping with the tap open in the neighborhood (photo: SQ Vision).
2023-12-24 17:03:47


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Anyone who looked outside shortly before nightfall probably noticed: the sky turned completely purple. A beautiful spectacle that was captured in photos by several people. Weatherman Donny de Koning explains how this is possible.

The explanation is simple, says the weatherman. “We saw the sun setting on the horizon. So it illuminated the clouds. It gives a beautiful image.”

De Koning emphasizes that it is not about the rare mother-of-pearl clouds, which can sometimes be seen at this time of year. “They occur at very high altitudes at temperatures of at least -80 degrees. For these stratospheric clouds to form, the air must be extremely cold at about 25 kilometers. This does not happen so quickly above the Netherlands,” the weatherman explains.

On Friday evening there was ‘just’ a beautiful purple sky above our province. To see pearly clouds, you need to be more lucky. “The conditions are right. They may be visible in the coming days.”

Below you can see some of the beautiful pictures.

2023-12-22 17:38:48


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