Motorists had to deal Monday with the heaviest rush hour Monday this year. At the peak there was around 17.30 in a total of 303 kilometers of traffic jam due to heavy rains, said a spokeswoman for the Traffic Information Service (VID)
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This evening peak surpassed even that of May 18 when it was 256 km traffic jam on Monday night. Such a file is exceptional for a Monday. There is usually on Monday lineup of 100 to 150 kilometers.
Especially in the south of the country and around Breda was busy. KNMI had for the provinces of North Brabant, Limburg and Gelderland code orange issued for ‘extreme weather’. But also elsewhere in the country was quite turbulent, so long arose files.
Code Orange
At the beginning of the evening ended KNMI code orange, but in the northern and eastern Provinces true Monday night still code yellow for ‘severe weather’. In these areas drew the early evening thunderstorms from southwest to northeast. Especially in the major rivers created a lot of damage and nuisance caused by heavy rain with hailstones, reported the KNMI.
Because of the rainfall were local streets under water. Even in some places fire broke out after lightning strikes. Between Den Bosch and Nijmegen reason Monday at the start of the evening, no trains, because the lightning had struck around 19:00. Buses were deployed, reported the Dutch Railways (NS). And also between Oss Oss West / Ravenstein trains fell off due to lightning
The next few hours pulling the showers eastward path
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