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Storm Isha was the seventh storm the Netherlands had to contend with this storm season. That’s not above average for a storm season. It seems like a lot, especially because we’ve had relatively few storms in recent years.
After Henk, Isha was the second storm to hit the Netherlands at the beginning of the calendar year. Including Pia and Gerrit, we had four storms in one month.
Nevertheless, over a longer period of time, it is not an above-average storm season, says meteorologist Alfred Snoek from Weerplaza. The storm season lasts a year and runs from September to September each year. Most storms occur in winter.
“We’ve had winters in recent years where it wasn’t that bad. Maybe it feels like there are more storms now because people can’t remember that many storms.” The storms aren’t any stronger on average, says Snoek.
In the current storm season, the Netherlands more or less had to contend with storms Babet, Ciarán, Elin, Pia, Gerrit, Henk and Isha. This is much more than the one storm last season. That was Poly, the worst summer storm ever, which hit the Netherlands on July 5 last year.
There was only one official storm in the 2019/2020 season. Ciara caused Code Orange nationwide in February 2020. In 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 we had four storms per season.
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The fire brigade removes fallen trees from Storm Isha
“British storms” don’t always reach us
In the UK and Ireland, with which the Dutch Meteorological Service works, there have been a total of nine named storms this season, including Isha.
Some storms did not reach the Netherlands or were no longer storms at that time. The Netherlands does not count as a storm, but the British Isles do. Scotland, for example, can prepare for a new storm later this week, but it will not reach the Netherlands.
According to the British weather service Met Office, the record is eleven storms per season. This was discovered in the 2015-2016 season when the weather service first began tracking the number of storms per season.
Storms often occur in IJmuiden and on the Wadden Sea. How is that possible?
- NUjij readers asked why the highest wind speeds are often recorded in IJmuiden.
- IJmuiden is located in North Holland, right on the west coast of the Netherlands.
- The weather station located there therefore receives “full wind” from the North Sea, where the vast majority of storms come from.
- The wind is also blowing at full strength on the Wadden Islands and, for example, in Vlissingen and Den Helder.
- If a storm is measured at one of these stations, it applies to the entire country. But in the East, for example, people don’t always suffer from storms.
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