Sunday becomes the first official tropical day of the year in the Netherlands

Sunday will be the first official tropical day of the year. According to Weeronline, the temperature reached 30.0 degrees at 2:20 pm in De Bilt. The rest of the country is similarly tropically warm. The highest temperature recorded so far was 31.2°C at Gilze-Rijen and Hoek van Holland.

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The first official tropical day of the year is three weeks earlier than usual. On average, it doesn’t happen for the first time until July 1st. There was already a tropical day locally on Friday, with temperatures reaching 30.5 degrees in Arsen, Limburg.

Last year, De Bilt’s first recorded temperature of 30 degrees Celsius was on July 18th. In 2021, his first official tropical day was measured on June 17th, the year before he was on June 26th. The earliest record of a tropical day in De Bilt is May 9, 1976.