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The Nieuwe Maas in the center of Rotterdam is too crowded and chaotic and requires more management and professionalization. The safety of the waterway is of immediate concern, the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) concluded in an investigation into a collision between a water taxi and a tour boat near the Erasmus Bridge on 21 July 2022.

More than 120,000 people watched the fireworks shows in Amsterdam and Rotterdam at midnight to ring in the New Year. Tilburg will attempt to organize a fireworks show on Monday night after cancelling their New Year's event due to wind. In the hours after midnight, there was a brief period of smog caused by exploding fireworks.

The weather will be very variable during New Year's Eve, with heavy showers regularly passing by, along with a chance of thunder and hail in the west of the Netherlands. The strong wind will blow in from the southwest, when many cities and towns have large fireworks shows planned to ring in the New Year. On Monday, the weather should be nice enough for those planning to jump into water for a traditional New Year's dip.

The large fireworks shows planned around midnight in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague will proceed as it stands. The organizers and the municipalities involved say that the signals are green despite the strong wind but that a final decision will be made later in the day. The fireworks shows in Hoek van Holland and Waddinxveen have been canceled.

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The strong wind predicted for New Year's Eve has not yet affected plans for the fireworks shows in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, said a spokesperson for event organizer Fjuze. Currently, meteorologists expect the sustained winds at either Beaufort scale 4 or 5, which equates to anywhere from 20 to 38 kilometers per hour. The fireworks show planned for The Hague is still uncertain. That would mean that the National Fireworks Show on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam could continue as planned, as we...

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