Snow alert: These Dutch provinces should get ready for a frosty weekend

🎵 Do you wanna build a sneeuwman? 🎵

If you live in the northeast of the Netherlands, you might want to get your good snow gloves out this weekend. ❄️

Residents of four to five Dutch provinces might wake up to a white surprise this Sunday, reports NU.nl.

Snow on Sunday morning

Residents of Overijssel, Drenthe, Friesland, Groningen, and some parts of the Veluwe (Gelderland) should be prepared to see snow this weekend.

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With a high chance of frost in the night between Saturday and Sunday, snow is likely to fall and stick around in the first hours of Sunday.

However, it won’t last long: in Zeeland, rain will start falling as early as 7 AM on Sunday, and it is expected to reach the northeast of the country by the afternoon.

The morning snow might melt away then, resulting in some dangerous icy roads, meteorologists tell NU.nl.

“Winter precipitation” incoming

The rest of the Netherlands, too, should brace for a weekend of “winter precipitation,” warn meteorologists.

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Throughout both Saturday and Sunday, the weather will changeable in most of the country, alternating rain, hail, and wet snow.

Time to bundle up and dig out that old knitting project, lieve mensen. 🥰

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Beatrice Scali 🇮🇹
Beatrice Scali 🇮🇹
Five years after spreading her wings away from her beloved Genova, Bia has just landed at DutchReview as an editorial intern. She has lived in China, Slovenia, Taiwan, and — natuurlijk — the Netherlands, where she just completed her bachelor’s in International Studies. When she’s not reciting unsolicited facts about the countries she’s lived in, she is writing them down. Her biggest dreams include lobbying the Dutch government into forcing oliebollen stands to operate year-round, and becoming a journalist. In this order.

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