Weather Alert code red – ANWB: departure until tonight on vacation – nrc.nl

Two men lean on the wind in the harbor of Makkum. Photo: ANP / Catrinus van der Veen

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The KNMI warns of extreme weather along the West Coast. For the provinces of Zeeland, South Holland and North Holland is code orange. In that area can be very heavy winds occur up to 110 kilometers per hour

Update 10:16 pm. The KNMI weather alarm turns on the western provinces of the Netherlands in code red. Noord-Brabant and Utrecht valid code orange.

Different venues in the Netherlands, including the Summer Carnival in Rotterdam are canceled due to the storm.

The stormy wind comes at the end of the morning the first blow in the southwestern coastal area and move in the afternoon over the country to the northeast. Only in the evening the weather is calmer. There will also be in the morning and in the first half of the afternoon, especially in the eastern half of the country for some thunderstorms. Locally be associated with hail.

falling trees and flying branches

The KNMI warns of falling trees and flying branches, roof tiles and panels. Large objects such as scaffolding and cranes can overturn. In addition, the KNMI says that ‘vulnerable road users’ extra must be careful, as (motor) cyclists, motorcyclists, lorries, cars with trailers and caravans.

A street in The Hague littered with blown takken.Foto ANP / Bart Size
Photos ANP / Bart Size

Holiday Bustle

The warning comes at a heavy storm day in Europe there is a lot of holiday traffic. The AA advised holidaymakers yesterday to go after the storm on the road.

The Traffic Information Service (VID) is expected today to seven hundred kilometer tailback on the French motorways, nearly a hundred kilometers more than last year on the last Saturday July. The first files started forming at 5:30 pm, both at the Mont Blanc Tunnel and at Paris. The A7, the Route du Soleil, also flows quickly. Between Lyon and Valence traffic around 7:30 rode slowly over 40 kilometers. In the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the wait time is one hour

In Germany, particularly the A3 towards Austria problematic. Work accident and two provide 13 kilometer traffic jam with one and a half hour wait. Also from Munich to the south it freezes

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