2023-06-16 16:18:00
The heat wave that we have been experiencing in Belgium since the end of last week will continue this weekend. We are still expecting a beautiful and warm day this Saturday with up to 29 degrees in the Campine, but Sunday will mark a change in weather. “Thunderstorms will arrive from the French border and could be violentfears Pascal Mormal, meteorologist at the IRM. There is already a risk of thunderstorms for Sunday evening and the night from Sunday to Monday, but it will intensify during the week with several thunderstorm bursts that will concern us until Thursday.”
It is also for the day of Thursday that we expect the largest accumulations of rain. “Thursday, it may be toughconfirms the meteorologist. We expect 50 to 70 liters of water per square meter in places, and we risk having problems with mudslides or flooding.”
It remains to be seen where these storms will break out. “It is always very difficult to predict where and when a thunderstorm will break out. But with this instability which will last several days, the whole country is threatened and should experience at least one episode.he warns. We are monitoring the situation, but it is still too early to issue a yellow or orange alert. And then, as I always say, these intense rains are not particularly beneficial for the soil, even if they will have the merit of refreshing the atmosphere and watering the vegetation.
Heat, drought, records and water reserves: what awaits us this summer
We are therefore at the end of this first heat wave, but we cannot speak of a cooling off. “We are forecasting between 23 and 25 degrees next week, but we are going to start again with an anticyclonic episode from Friday. Some models are again evoking the 30 degree mark for next weekend and the last days of June. We are well on our way to experiencing the hottest month of June since records began. In any case, this is already the case for the first half of this month.he continues. Over the first 15 days of June, the average temperature in Uccle was 20.1°C, i.e. the highest value for this parameter since the beginning of observations in this station in 1892. Unless you know a second fortnight June very cool (which is not currently forecast by the various models), June 2023 is on the way to being in the top 3 of the hottest months since the beginning of the records in Uccle in 1892. Note that the two hottest months of June are 1976 and 2003 with an average temperature of 19.3°C. Two months of June that marked the start of some of the hottest summers in our history.”
Summer is just beginning, and we will have to adapt to the heat.
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