Sinterklaasstorm of death: code orange/red [update]

Posted on 05-12-2013 at 11:45 by sir_smokalot – 15 Comments”

Tonight is for many the great night, but for the moment is to punish the weather gods for us unabashedly racist festival by a strong dose of blowing over the Low Countries to hunt.

More than a month after our previous penalty polderstorm it is again so far: in large parts of the country, there will be code orange, and the KNMI has the storm warning extended to code red for North-Holland, Friesland, Groningen, the Wadden and the IJsselmeer. If you plan to have been there later today to go sailing: don’t do it, unless it is in a hybrid Panamera.

Also, motorists who park their cars on the piers and quays have are doing there wise to their car taken to parking elsewhere, high winds in combination with spring tides could still get a salty mustache pose. The police on the island of Ameland and Terschelling has drivers called to their cars to higher places to move.

If you’re on this afternoon, still not specific planning has been his early home, then I would have that now anyway, and there are quite some files expected. The Dutch Rijkswaterstaat, take into account the heavy evening rush hour that because of devil earlier on, and coincides with the peak of the storm. Further: two hands on the wheel please, and for the truckers, without cargo, is the all the way watch out blown. Warnings of Rijkswaterstaat here, liveblogs about the storm there.

Oh, and a fine festival of st. nicholas, of course.

UPDATE: Panic at the NS! The traffic North of the Netherlands, is discontinued. From 14.00 hours, the train service north of the line Amsterdam-Zwolle for safety reasons, shut down. The NS calls it a “very dramatic situation, it is necessary for the safety of passengers and staff”. When the traffic resumes can be is not yet clear.

Photo: @Olaf_N