“extremely dry“. This is the forecast which concerns 90% of Belgian territory in the next ten days, the extreme East (Fagnes and cantons) and the extreme South (Gaume and southern Luxembourg) seeming to be a little spared. Some scattered rains are scheduled for next night but the rainfall totals will be anecdotal, according to the RTBF weather service.
Then the weather will be dry once more, as it has been for several weeks, which might make the current period the driest period, at this time of year, in the last 50 years. This was confirmed to us Pascal Mormal, climatologist at the Royal Institute of Meteorology.
“Yes, we are indeed in a configuration of extreme drought for what is called the meteorological spring, which goes from March 1 to May 31, there is a historical precipitation deficit. Seasonal normals are 121.2l / m2, et we are at 40.2 liters. It’s the third of what we should have!“
To find a drier spring, the meteorologist must have gone back to… 1893: “There we were at 37.6 l / m2. Even during the famous drought of 1976, we were at an average of 69 liters for the whole of the 3 months. But like we are at 40.2 at the moment and we do not really expect heavy periods of rain to come, it is not excluded that we are still below“.
