Rain or Shine?

Dutch weather can be anything from the perfect sunny day to overcast skies. best time to visit is between April and September because days are longer and temperatures are milder. December is the rainest month and February the coldest. In winter temperatures hover around freezing. If it snows, it is only very light and never stays long on the ground.

My favourite weather website is buienradar is one of my favourite websites. (Buien is the Dutch word for rain showers.) It shows where in the Netherlands it is raining or will rain in the next two hours. The site shows radar images of KNMI, the Dutch Meteorological Institute. The only problem is that the site is in Dutch, I don’t think this is a big problem because the images speak for themselves.

Translation Help
On the left it says: actuele buien meaning present showers and afgelopen 2 uur means past 2 hours. I don’t find this information very useful because who wanst to know what the weather was like two or more hours ago

Lower down it says: verwachting meaning (weather) outlook. This is the interesting bit because if you click on the times it will show you what rain to expect the next two hours.

Navigate across the yellow dots on the map and the place names will be shown. Click on a dot to zoom in.

photo credit: ZukoVega @flickr