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It’s official: summer has (finally) arrived! Tuesday, June 1, marked the Netherlands' first official summer day of 2021.

Higher temperatures this week but stormy showers on the way

Hail on a road. Photo: Depositphotos.com April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot, but the onset of spring was exceptionally bitter in 2021, according to the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI. The average temperature for April was the lowest for 35 years at 6.7 degrees, well below the seasonal norm of 9.9 degrees. In the 1980s the typical level for the month was 8 degrees. There were 10 days when the thermometer at De Bilt, the KNMI’s headquarters, remained below 10 degrees all day and on April 6 the maximum temperature was 5.7 degrees, making it the coldest April day since 2013. It w...

April 2021: The Netherlands’ coldest April in 35 years Facebook April 2021: The Netherlands’ coldest April in 35 years Facebook What's up Thinking back to this time last year, the first coronavirus lockdown saw sunny skies and unseasonably warm temperatures. However, 2021 is looking very different. The weather this year has already been unusual and unpredictable - with snow over Easter and record-breaking warmth in February.  April may have seen a decent amount of sunshine, however, the temperatures left much to be desired. In fact, with an average temperature of only 6,7 degrees, last m...

  Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves. This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean. The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter. This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seasons, a team from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt says in its  . Cl...