When watching the clip of that woman screaming, i also said to myself "ach, stel je niet aan en hou je kop, hysterisch geschreeuw". But i'm Dutch as well 😅
I'm Dutch so I don't mind a bit of wind but what I really hate is when I ride my bike to work in the morning on a winters-day and it's just above freezing temperatures and there is a strong headwind and icy-rain. It's like a thousand needles stinging in your face the whole bike-ride to work.
mostly its the dutch youth just being thrill seekers, we get a warning a day or so before a storm hits so we can take precautions. storms like this happen maybe twice a year if we are unlucky, but rain and hail is something we know quite a lot about and i think there is not a house in the netherlands that doesnt have a umbrella hidden somewhere.
Same here, Umbrella's + these winds is a big nono, Raincoats are just perfect for this especailly if you have to work outside every single morning to do farm works :'D
Yep and the one moment there is hardly any wind and the next moment there is a storm, I was a roller skater and had a challenge from a windsurfer who was going to compete in a race from Enkhiuizen to Lelystad, he bet me I would not be able to beat any windsurfer by roller skating the roads and dike, well I was 5 th at Trintelhaven (halfway the dijk Enkhuizen/ Lelystad) and then there is a big turn Right and there I saw the windsurfers go flying over and falling, all hell broke loose. I suddenly had to ""klúún"" (walk) because the wind was from a mild 3 or 4 to 9 to 10 blowing straight in my face in a few minutes, almost stopping me from getting forward. The funny fact is this surfer's GF and his sister wanted to mentally support me and went from Lelystad to me on a (yes one bike, the gf pedaling his sis on the back)""oma"" bike, and met me just when the storm hit. I had to push them because the wind was so strong they could not get any forward speed., in the end only 3 surfers made it to the finish, search and rescue had a really busy afternoon, many boats and surfers needed to be rescued. I did finish winning the bet eventually, and all I got was cramps on that Hemelvaartsdag LOL
@@therickman1990 We don't really have tornadoes here in the NL, they are just Windhozen/ small fast rotating winds. Some ppl like to either exaggerate or don't know what a real tornado is ;) ""Oklahoma, where the wind blows sweeping down the plains. Where the waving weeds do sure smell sweet. Where the wind goes sweeping down the plains "" Lalalalala ""Okay, L.Ai.Age, O, Am, Ai, Oklahoma!"" ;)
@@petermaardananders6803 From wikipedia: "The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country (more than 20, or 0.00048/km2, 0.0012/sq mi annually), followed by the UK (around 33, 0.00013/km2, 0.00034/sq mi per year), although those are of lower intensity, briefer and cause minor damage."
@@petermaardananders6803windhoos is a tornado, like hurricane and cyclone are the same. Difference between USA and NL is the size and duration. They are much smaller in general in the NL, and don’t last as long (because of the size they’re less destructive too). The storms in these videos are extremes, but they occur still quite regularly. (Several times a year, but less than 10 generally). Edit: last week we had coastal winds of up to 70 kmh (45 mph) which didn’t get any attention. Generally high 8 or higher on the Beaufort scale (say 70+ kmh) gets a bit of attention when more land inward and 9 or 10 get (serious) warnings.
The Netherlands has more tornado's every year than the rest of Europe combined. We are technically the tornado alley of Europe. The tornados themselfes are mostly F0 sometimes edge F1 and short lived and tend to occur in open areas (often above/near) larger bodies of water so damage is very local. The former hurricanes that cross the Atlantic arrive here as big storms that can have windgusts up to hurricane speeds so they tend to do a lot more damage.
@@mckroket5779 de meeste tornados die veel impact hebben zijn in het oosten maar kleinere tornados die met een minuut weg zijn hebben we overal wel en ook redelijk wat op die op het water ontstaan maar dat zijn dan waterhozen
@@flopjul3022 klopt. Neede was een F4 tornado van Borculo lichter maar dacht meer schade omdat die echt over het hele dorp trok en dus meer bekendheid.
I remember visiting family abroad and lying outside in the garden to get some sun. They called me inside due to the 'strong wind' and to me it was just a breeze. Spend some time in the Netherlands and you get so used to that stuff you consider a storm 'fun entertainment' and a reason to go outside to clear your head.
This is a code red storm. We also have code red for icy roads and heat. And yes, I have stepped in my car to drive across the country during code red iciness. It was pretty fun sliding over the roads like that. Couldn't go faster than 40 km/h, though. Didn't want to make it too much of an adventure, especially with kids in the back
storms as extreme as the one in the video are pretty rare. there is some awful rain pretty often. but my mom just said "you're not made of sugar, are you?" and on the bike to school i went! lol
That's one of the reasons why we have storm surge barriers in the Netherlands. (E.g. the Deltaworks) When it's code red weather sometimes they will close them. Fortunately this kind of weather is rare.
Had to bike a few km on top of a dyke to get to school, so sometimes when we had strong wind in the back we biked without holding the handlebars and held your jacket open as a sail. Balanced the ride back with frontwind……
Most of these clips were shot during one of the worst storms in recent years. I believe it was called storm Poly. It was one of those once-in-a-century storms. I had to do my job as a postman on that day. I had already started my round before my employer decided that it was way too dangerous to send people out. Since I was already outside, I decided I might as well finish work that day. Most of the mail in the Netherlands is delivered by bike and on foot. It was an extremely unpleasant experience, but definitely not the first time I had to work during a storm.
Postnl was better to you than it was to me. I remember code red icy roads, and Postnl sending out messages the day before, that delivery staff didn't have to work, as the roads would be too dangerous, while sorting staff was required to come in My mum decided to just go deliver her mail, because if I had to work, she'd feel guilty staying home, when we both had to ride our bikes and work for the same company.
Think the main thing is, in the Netherlands we listened to the story about the 3 little pigs and the wolf and we build our houses out of concrete and bricks instead of plywood. So storms tend to do a lot less damage here compared to the US.
I haven't seen much of that in the clips but it can be quite funny/dangerous on the bicycle as well. I remember that I was pushed off the road by side wind into a large canal. I was lucky and I could just walk out, carrying my bicycle in my arms. I still had to ride home though, through the storm and all wet haha.
I love that you love Dumpert! Also probably a lot of people telling you this but these storms are not that frequent. Of course wind is stronger at the coast in the west but normally it's not this crazy.
If you find it crazy what we do in the wind you should react to tom scots video about het nk tegenwind fietsen (nk cycling against head wind) that is some crazy shit we do
We dont get hurricanes, but locally winds up to hurricane speed are possible. These people just happened to be in the right place at the right time. During a storm a few years back, a 100kg brick chimney was knocked off my neighbours house. Thankfully no one got hurt. The best memory I have of extreme weather, is one summer when I was a kid, it rained like 30cm in a few days and all the kids in the neighbourhood went swimming in the street.
Hurricanes is rare but not unheard of. We had a F4 in 1925 and 1927 in the east of the Netherlands near where I live. Also a 9-10 Beaufort storm in the mid 80s.
Ah yes, but in 1987 do you remember that extreme winter? We could ice-skate on the streets, roads and to school we were iced over for days on end. Oh those good old real winters where have they gone to, nowadays ppl aren't winter hard anymore. Back then (yeah I'm old LOL And no it wasn't better back then, it was quite different than today) we were outside playing all the bloody time, a scarf around our neck, some gloves on, and an extra layer of clothes and socks.c And we went and go played outside until you were a ""popsicle"". Then go home get a hot cocoa,(or whatever hot) and sit near a ""kachel"" heater/ radiator and defrost, and rinse and repeat LOL
@@petermaardananders6803 I wasnt even born in 87 lol. I do remember when I was little there was one winter where the lakes properly froze over and my grandpa pulled me around on his ice skates, me on a little sled. That was fun.
@@petermaardananders6803 Yep, indeed we did. I remember beginning of 1963 walking on frozen sea in Scheveningen. I was 7 (almost 8) years in those days. Never seen that anymore!
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the most extreme it got recently was when in the summer of 2021 when there were downdrafts in Leersum that caused immense damage towards the houses. there have been major storms since with tornado speeds but that one was the one that made a lot of impact
I am from the Netherlands and i like your videos, during a storm there is not such a strong wind as a hurricane/tornado, but in our country there is a threat of flooding in the North Sea. A flood disaster occured here in 1953. The provinces of Zeeland, Noord-brabant and Zuid-holland where hit by high storm surges, causing 1800 deaths. Based on that disaster a delta plan was established, many dams and flood defences where built, including the: Brewers Dam, the Maesland Barrier (near Rotterdam) and the Oosterschelde Barrier. The Oosterschelde Barrier consists of 60 enormous gates that can close off the Oosterschelde (an inlet) when high tide comes. The Oosterschelde Barrier is 9 kilometer long. I translated this text with Google translate so i hope you can read it😃 Groeten uit Nederland!!!! (greetings from the Netherlands!!!) Houdoe!, a greeting from Tilburg, A nice city and my hometown in the Netherlands, also worthy of a video😃!!!
Storms with hurricane force winds happen occasionally, but they are almost never true hurricanes in the Netherlands only because they don't usually rotate. Tornadoes happen too, but the lighter ones aren't classified as tornadoes in the Netherlands. If I remember correctly category 1 and 2 tornadoes according to the American system aren't called tornadoes in the Netherlands and category 3 and up are rare. We also sometimes get sudden and local downpours that overwhelm sewer systems and waterways and cause local floodings, but due to Dutch engineering that too is rare. I've been in a few heavy storms and the natural forces involved are amazing. A few weeks ago we had a very local heavy storm that snapped 2 really thick trees (1 meter+ trunks) in half and ripped heavy branches off of some other trees. But the next street just had some twigs and leaves on the ground.
A guy in my region (Vlissingen in Zeeland province) was kite surfing at sea and got catapulted at very high altitude towards the boulevard. He flew right between 2 appartment buildings and survived. This happens a lot, but most people who are kite surfing in stormy weather are very experienced and skilled. In my province we have the annual championships of head wind biking. Funny detail: last year it was cancelled because the wind was to heavy (doesn't happen often that it's being cancelled) When I was a kid we had to bike 16 kilometers in whatever wheater we had, so biking through the storm was quite normal and we were often blown off the biking paths, in the ditches 🤣 When we had extreme storms, I used to go to coast and we would lean with our bodies against the wind. Huge fun!
Belgian here; i remember my old school friend going to the beach with his kite board any time the wind got above gale force 8 (that's Beaufort scale) in order to get his jumps in :D
Really strong windstorms like that are rare, one every few years. The worst I was in was in the 1990s. I was in the train from Gouda to Den Haag and it came to a stop in the fields because the overhead wires were about to break. The wind rocked the train from side to side. 😱
I come from the Netherlands myself. We don't always have such strong winds, it is often caused by foreign storms that arrive in the Netherlands weakened.
When I was a kid, we'd housesit for friends of my parents every summer vacation. It was a very short drive from the beach, so we'd go there every day. Especially if bad weather was predicted, because the sea looks awesome when there's a strong wind and rain. Perfect for a walk along the beach. We mostly enjoyed sunshine, though.
A few weeks ago there was a downburst where I live (in the Netherlands) I was looking at the shelfcloud and I could see it started to rotate a little bit. The wind was barely there, the calm before the storm. All of the sudden I could see things flying up in to the air in the distance. I quickly grabbed my cat off of the balcony and when I reached the balcony door the branches of trees were already flying horizontally behind my back. It was a downdburst with gustnado's. Many houses were damaged and a lot of trees went down. I have never seen anything like it before.
Where was this? Back in 2014 there was an extreme downburst in Hoogeveen. It was estimated such a downburst only occurs once every 100 years... Sounds like they were about 90 years off on that one.
@@Dr.BenjiBuddy I remember the one in Hoogeveen. Their calculations were way off indeed! It was in Meppel. The storm caused damage in a range of 50 km. In Meppel it caused a downburst. There are video's of it on the internet. Most of them are of the aftermath. And there is one doorbelvideo that shows 2 people who are very lucky to be alive and how fast it went.
I’m from The a Netherlands and one thing I will always remember was: My son was like 3 (14 year old now) I had to hold him because he almost was literally picked up by the wind and blown away . We also had hail in the size of pingpong balls .. And by the way with this kind of wind most of us still go to school, work and shopping 😛 most of us just call it a really stormy day 🤣
One year, wind storm toppled a tree on my car and totaled it, a few years later, it blew part of the roof off of my house, causing leaks down two floors, and a ton of money in repairs. Luckily, both times we were insured.
As a dutch person i will have to mention that code red is the highest warning state we have here. It happens max 2 times a year if it happens at all, but those storms hit HARD. But as a dutchy i can also safely say if you stay indoors, and dont go walking near tile roofs (cuz those things tend to fly off during storms) then your 100% safe. All our houses are made of stone so other then a broke window or messed up shed we dont suffer much damage. Roofs of company buildings tend to be a lot weaker so you sometimes see them go up, but even then the damage is more then managable.
The highest I can remember was a 9 on the beaufort scale which equates to a strong gale (47-54mph), strong wind but that's it and quite common I'd say, living in the UK I've not had such experience of the winds like in the Netherlands and here you get a yellow warning for almost nothing imo 🤣.
The worst turbulence I ever experienced was last year, when i visited family in Vienna. I went by plane, from Shithol, the Netherlands. The start went well, after a 3 hour delay (the whole flight takes 1,5 hours, you know how pissed I was). Then the flight went well, little bit turbulence, nothing fancy. Until we got into an air bubble during landing. The plane was slammed down on the airstrip while landing, bumping the damn plane up and down four times and then swerving off the strip, until the captain decided to fly around the airport for once. People started screaming and crying and I was like: stfu, then don't go flying if you're afraid. My point is: if you're afraid of flying, then don't fly.
We had hurricane winds last year, i was hoping we'd have them again this year but it seems like that'll be blowing over (i know i'm a freak) it was wild seeing awnings being ripped off during that storm, had a good time walking outside, seen a lot of trees topple over. The worst weather i had seen however was back in 2002 i think, where the metro Blaak (it's underground portion) had flooded during a freak rain storm, i think it was around 22cm of water.
I'm not sure if the wind is harder here, but it's definitely flat, no mountains, barely any hills to break the wind speeds and little trees. As a kid I had to cycle to school between the fields, where wind had free play as well, I tumbled quite a few times. Sometimes ending up trying to walk, bicycle in hand, but could barely step forward like some people in this video, I would be like 😑 with the wind. Usually only gusts or a short period of time though. I also remember kiting with my brother, I would actually be scared to be pulled up and always let go, although that really annoyed my brother haha. Also, been on the water in a open small sailboat once when all hell broke loose, we had to zigzag / tack to get back to land that felt like a long and bumpy ride haha 🌬😄 A long story short, yea, I think wind is something we do grow up with.
Living way out east in NL I can't relate to these crazy winds at all, but when i visit Friesland i can relate. 2 hour drive and it's like being in a different country with regards to general windiness
The thing is about our weather not getting recognized or published about is, that it’s kinda normal to us. The weather is also pretty unpredictable. You can almost have to wear every season wardrobe in one day. Also rain at any moment all the time
I remember a few years ago there ware winds like in this video, I have a steel chimney cap (I guess) and because of poor mounting and these incredible winds it blew off and took out several roof tiles, crashed through a sturdy wooden table and broke apart several of the stone slabs of my terrace so that was fun to see happening (I still have nightmares seeing that thing barrelling down my house towards where i was standing)
I was in a heavy storm some 4 years ago. Riding a bicycle on the rondweg in Eindhoven I saw it coming and it seemed far enough for me to get home but then, when I entered the street to the south it came in hard with no place to seek shelter for another 500 meters. Branches flew around me and I had to go on and try to avoid them wich luckily happened and I reached my shelter, and that moment I wasn't scared. I got scared the next day when I got to the same place and saw the branches were like 12" thick and over 8 meters long....
Those 'tornado's' are called 'windhoos' or 'waterhoos' ( the later when occuring above.. water ). They aren't nearly as energetic as a tornado but can cause pretty high wind gusts. We do get hurricane's, but it's rare. Storm and heavy storm are pretty common though.
A few years back we had a pretty harsh storm where I live, and 7 huge trees fell onto the houses in our street. In the entire city trees fell down. The fire department was busy for days getting them all removed. Our shed got demolished. One branch of a tree almost pierced our sleeping room window. A car of a neighbour got hit and crushed, with him and his wife and three children in it. We went out to get them inside, it was madness.
It's super windy in Netherlands bc it next to the sea and completely flat, nothing stops the wind.. We don't (almost never) have typhoons or hurricanes but wind is a part of life for us. My personal best was in the beach in wind force 12, leaning against the wind in a crazy angle without falling down and getting the prints sandblasted off my new shoes. Also, you should try watching with subtitles... Or learn Dutch, you seem to love the Netherlands, or maybe I just see your Dutch reviews bc I'm dutch 😁
I did that kitejumping thing for years as a kid, on the north coast of terschelling. Or open your jacket and bike to school without pedalling. And code red is the sign to go to the beach or watch big trees break at the lake.
I think we usually have 3 to 5 heavy storms a year that justify a warning, depends on the strenght of the gusts usuallly. Often you can just cycle through with a lot of effort but the gusts are what stops you or take off branches and roof tiles. The insurance companies will usually estimate the damage the nex day in terms of tens of millions rather than hundreds of millions, and sometimes one or two fatalities of people that were exactly in the wrong spot. I like to go out in the storm, but not too heavy ones because there are treas and roof tiles everywhere.
The craziest weather I've experienced here in the Netherlands is an actual tornado... Which is very rare here. And I didn't even notice it. It happened while I was practicing with the punk metal band that I was in at the time so I guess we were being loud enough to drown out the ruckus outside. When our band practice was done and we exited the building, we saw that roofs had been blown off of neighboring buildings, trees had fallen over, debris strewn about everywhere, it was totally surreal and we missed it all. :D
Dutch thunder storms in the summer can go real brzk locally with 100 / 130 Km/h winds for a short time. sometimes a F1 tornado is possible. Also excessive rain ( month value in 1 hour) can happen. and the town next to it gets totally nothing.
We work with 3 colored codes for the weather. Code yellow - So no difference from an ordinary day Code orange - Yheh, it might be time to put a coat on. Code red - "Pas een beetje op, er staat een stevig briesje." Which translates to roughly "It's a bit windy outside."
Maybe you have looked at it already but there must be videos about icy weather in the Netherlands. They can also be legendary and crazy. We do sometimes have very strong winds and small tornados.
U might not know this but the Netherlands gets alot of Tornadoes yearly, the main reason u don't hear as much about them is that either they don't do much damage or becouse they are above water and thus away from people and houses.They mainly appear in the north of the country or at the coast. of course we also get alot of storms and as u saw they can couse quite some damage, especially along the coast.
So the small "tornadoes" you see are called windhoos in Dutch. I think it translates to landspout. They can also form above water, making them a waterspout. They are always very thin, whereas tornadoes are the very heavy variation. We don't get tornadoes here though. You still don't want to get too close to them, but they aren't as dangerous. They are still cool to see, and they can definitely fling light objects around up to even something like a caravan.
I think I once read somewhere that the Netherlands has the most tornados of all counrties or per square kilometer. We don't think of them as tornados though because of they tend to be very thin. 'Wervelwind' is another word for them.
One has not really been in the NL if you did not have a 4 seasons a day day. Okay, worst storm, In the NL there are polders (google it if you don't know what those are) the one I live in (the eastern Flevopolder) is about 18 ish feet below sea level. Now go back to November 1972, we moved to this new town (Anno 1967) called Lelystad in the E.F.polder in August 1972. Then the polder still was unproven cause untested to be safe against heavy storms and the consequential beating waters surrounding it. The polder was closed and no traffic was safe, because of this extreme November Storm the first real test of how strong the dijken (Dams) were. So most all ppl were kind of scared living on the bottom of the former Southern Sea, called the IJsselmeer (IJssel= pron. isle- and ee=ea as in ear (the IJssel is a river- and meer=lake)) anywho, we all who could not get out of the polder on time, went upstairs with a transistor battery-powered radio, food, drinks, clothing, safety gear, inflatable boats, valuables etc. iof we had those items, to sit it out. well, that was something, haha pigs can't fly ?! Oh really can't they?! Hmm trees did, roofs did cars blew over, street lamps and road signs buckled, roofs flew over roofs. anywho we had no major damage to our street block except rubble all over the bloody place. The worst windpower 12+ storm I have ever experienced, the Dijken withstood it with ease and since then has been upgraded. So don't worry about the polders/ dijken I still live there and haha no storm will make me feel unsafe ever again. Remember the expression "God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands"". Nowadays with all those silly code red-orange and yellow events, ppl are scared (into) for no reason. Crying wolf is what the govt. do at present with those codes for storms in a teacup. Haha youngsters don't even know what a real storm is LOL We have the Beaufort scale system , from windspeed 0 Beaufort no wind etc. up to 12 Beaufort (max on the scale ) hurricane speeds, and there is one more special for the odd ones out, thus, especially for the NL LOL And that is 12+ or 13( of the scale of Beaufort, because it far exceeds the scale) extreme extreme extreme extreme extreme!! You will most likely be blown over at 9 or 10, no lorries, vans or caravans are allowed the be on the road. trees will lose branches and or fall over, roofs can be in danger. 11 anker yourself and most everything else down, 12 pigs do fly, 12+/ 13 absolute terror and horror! Yeah, we like breaking wind, and blame the cat ;)
The worst turbulence ever was on a flight back home to Schiphol. On the way to wherever we were going, I think Greece, we had a perfectly normal landing, nothing out of the ordinary, and everyone on the plane clapped. Then on the way back, the plane was just about to land on the runway and suddenly there was a massive wind sheer, pilot managed to land it very smoothly at a 30 degree angle and nobody clapped. Thats the Dutch mentality. We arent gonna clap for a guy just doing his job lmao.
In the early 90s there were also some heacy storms which blew off half the shingles of our roof. Also during that time my dad thought it was fun to visit the beach but our dachshund almost blew away 😅 My dad had to hold her under his coat and me and my sister were also fighting to stay alive basically 😂😂 It was a short beach trip that day he clearly underestimated the situation (this was also before we lost half our roof 😏)
We get all types of weather in the Netherlands. Storms like that happen maybe a couple times a year now. But that doesn't mean we don't have annoying winds the rest of the year. And still we get on our bicycles!
We don't have hurricanes or tornadoes (technically we do but theyre so minor compared to the big ones that we rarely count them a such) but once every few years we got a few days of this extreme wind, that's the problem with a flat country. Nothing stops it from blowing the country away 😂
Ehm... Dumpert is known for posting stuff that's so ridiculous it becomes funny. Remember that. This is not typical. I remember one time, the January storm of 1990, when I got picked up by the wind and didn't touch the ground for a few yards. 34 years ago. And the winter of '79, when I skated my way to school over a brick road at -20C. That was 46 years ago, I'm getting on a bit :) It's amazing how we didn't mind the cold as kids, now I grab my blanket immediately. These were truly exceptional times, not the normal state of things. Dumpert only does exceptional stuff. We do tend to think 'ok, let's have a bit of fun with this'
The dude going way up at the beach is just a " kite-surfer ", an actual sport world wide... The kite is hooked loosely into a harnass you wear and take the pressure and weight of your arms so you can used your arms just to steer the kite, not using a harnass / safety release is very dangerous and never do it when the wind is straight onto the land ( there've been fatalities when this mistake was made )... Before kite surfing was a thing you could find me and a few friend doing something the same, 1st on ordenairy snow ski's on the sand ( one time being clocked by the cops going between 80 - 85 km's/hour with 2 persons on 1 pair of ski's ) , later we tried on a surfboard, it was a very long walk back to were our car was parked... But yes, we love stormy weather and always try to enjoy it in some sort of weird way...
Windspeed can get up to 180-200km easily. Houses usually don’t get destroyed. A house of stones, or concrete you can not tear down that easily. But let me tell you, I come from south Germany, we usually have no winds there. Living for 20 years here in Amsterdam you get so used to wind, that if there is one day windstill, you feel like something missing. Also always check wind speed leaving with a bike, since it makes no sense riding against the wind.
We Dutch are a rare breed, even in sight of danger we still try to have fun with it ( the sailing on skates and bikes and so on) We do realise that people might die but since we do not have these heavy winds often some of us try to make the best of it and others hide in fear.
The strongest (sustained) winds in the Netherlands have never reached hurricane speeds. Speeds of 12 on the scale of Beaufort have been reached once, 11 has been reached a couple of times, but most storms cap out at about 9 or 10 We do however get things we call a "windhoos", which are light tornadoes or sometimes even actual tornadoes. Most of the chaotic distruction you've seen where it's hard to see what's actually happening is because of those. Or because of something we call a "valwind" (fall wind), which are very strong gusts of wind. I think those can reach hurricane levels of winds for several seconds
Worst wind i got was over a decade ago when i was going home from school it was faster to step off the bike and walk then try to cycle against the wind 😂
6:41 wasn't this from the 3 storms in one week thing in 2022 Dudley Euginie and Franklin? The UK had it own floods and storm damage, no airtime for our storm problems
What I mostly like about these storm videos is sending them to people who claim “build your house out of brick, then a hurricane won’t destroy your house” while in in these videos a storm literally destroys brick houses. And the winds in the Netherlands don’t get as bad as the winds during a tornado. I’m born and raised in The Netherlands. The number of roofs I’ve seen blown off houses over the years… those roofs are about as heavy as an entire wood build single family home in the US. And yet, the wind picks them up like it’s nothing. What you’d think a hurricane would do to those houses?
I don't know whether we get classified tornadoes in the Netherlands, but we had a katabatic wind (valwind in Dutch) on June 18, 2021 that gave a few million euro's of damage. June 17 2021 had horrendous whether in France and Belgium: France had winds of 100 km/ph, and in Belgium they spoke that day of a small tornado.
On the plane with the woman going hysterical you can hear a Dutch dude say "it's just a bit of wind*sighs"
When watching the clip of that woman screaming, i also said to myself "ach, stel je niet aan en hou je kop, hysterisch geschreeuw". But i'm Dutch as well 😅
@@tomverheijden712 me too. A plane is safe as long as it has speed and is IN the air.
@@JaapGinder until the wings fall of.
@@ce17ec That doesn't ever happen to commercial planes
Hahaha, I said: "Ugh hou een beetje rekening, ze maakt iedereen gestresst met dat gekrijs. 😂😂😂
I'm Dutch so I don't mind a bit of wind but what I really hate is when I ride my bike to work in the morning on a winters-day and it's just above freezing temperatures and there is a strong headwind and icy-rain. It's like a thousand needles stinging in your face the whole bike-ride to work.
and then to find out that the wind has shifted and again you have a headwind on the way back home
@@r.vandijk2458 The wind is never in your favor 😂
oh thanks fr reminding me gvd, cant wait kutwinter
@@r.vandijk2458I had to cross a bridge on my way to school, headwind in the morning, headwind in the afternoon. At least good for the legs
@@darrellbeets7758moet je daar voor zulke taal gebruiken ?
mostly its the dutch youth just being thrill seekers, we get a warning a day or so before a storm hits so we can take precautions.
storms like this happen maybe twice a year if we are unlucky, but rain and hail is something we know quite a lot about and i think there is not a house in the netherlands that doesnt have a umbrella hidden somewhere.
only 1? we have 10 in a household of 4 and always 1 in the car
I don’t have a umbrella. They don’t work for me . But I do own a Regenpak 🤣
This is a lie, all my umbrella's are safely hidden away in random trains, busses, shops and other places I keep forgetting them.
@@FrasssIetss Hopelijk scheurt die rits er niet af zoals bij mij
Same here, Umbrella's + these winds is a big nono, Raincoats are just perfect for this especailly if you have to work outside every single morning to do farm works :'D
As a dutch person, let me explain our weather:
Sun
Rain
Wind
Thunder
Rain
Wind
Sun
Snow
Sun
This all happens within a hour
Te veel zon ingevuld maat😂
Ik denk:
sun
rain
rain
wind
rainbow (?)
rainstorm
rain
snow
sun (?)
En nu is het goed 😃👍
Dat is inderdaad meer accuraat
Fun little fact, the netherlands and the UK share the highest tornado density of the world.
Yep and the one moment there is hardly any wind and the next moment there is a storm, I was a roller skater and had a challenge from a windsurfer who was going to compete in a race from Enkhiuizen to Lelystad, he bet me I would not be able to beat any windsurfer by roller skating the roads and dike, well I was 5 th at Trintelhaven (halfway the dijk Enkhuizen/ Lelystad) and then there is a big turn Right and there I saw the windsurfers go flying over and falling, all hell broke loose. I suddenly had to ""klúún"" (walk) because the wind was from a mild 3 or 4 to 9 to 10 blowing straight in my face in a few minutes, almost stopping me from getting forward. The funny fact is this surfer's GF and his sister wanted to mentally support me and went from Lelystad to me on a (yes one bike, the gf pedaling his sis on the back)""oma"" bike, and met me just when the storm hit. I had to push them because the wind was so strong they could not get any forward speed., in the end only 3 surfers made it to the finish, search and rescue had a really busy afternoon, many boats and surfers needed to be rescued. I did finish winning the bet eventually, and all I got was cramps on that Hemelvaartsdag LOL
Tornado's? Max 3 times a year. I think the US has more then that in a week.
@@therickman1990 We don't really have tornadoes here in the NL, they are just Windhozen/ small fast rotating winds. Some ppl like to either exaggerate or don't know what a real tornado is ;) ""Oklahoma, where the wind blows sweeping down the plains. Where the waving weeds do sure smell sweet. Where the wind goes sweeping down the plains "" Lalalalala ""Okay, L.Ai.Age, O, Am, Ai, Oklahoma!"" ;)
@@petermaardananders6803 From wikipedia: "The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country (more than 20, or 0.00048/km2, 0.0012/sq mi annually), followed by the UK (around 33, 0.00013/km2, 0.00034/sq mi per year), although those are of lower intensity, briefer and cause minor damage."
@@petermaardananders6803windhoos is a tornado, like hurricane and cyclone are the same. Difference between USA and NL is the size and duration. They are much smaller in general in the NL, and don’t last as long (because of the size they’re less destructive too).
The storms in these videos are extremes, but they occur still quite regularly. (Several times a year, but less than 10 generally).
Edit: last week we had coastal winds of up to 70 kmh (45 mph) which didn’t get any attention.
Generally high 8 or higher on the Beaufort scale (say 70+ kmh) gets a bit of attention when more land inward and 9 or 10 get (serious) warnings.
The Netherlands has more tornado's every year than the rest of Europe combined. We are technically the tornado alley of Europe. The tornados themselfes are mostly F0 sometimes edge F1 and short lived and tend to occur in open areas (often above/near) larger bodies of water so damage is very local. The former hurricanes that cross the Atlantic arrive here as big storms that can have windgusts up to hurricane speeds so they tend to do a lot more damage.
Meestal vinden de tornado's plaats op het land in het oosten. De zwaarste in Neede en 2 jaar ervoor in Borculo 1927 en 1925
@@mckroket5779 de meeste tornados die veel impact hebben zijn in het oosten maar kleinere tornados die met een minuut weg zijn hebben we overal wel en ook redelijk wat op die op het water ontstaan maar dat zijn dan waterhozen
@@flopjul3022 klopt. Neede was een F4 tornado van Borculo lichter maar dacht meer schade omdat die echt over het hele dorp trok en dus meer bekendheid.
LOL I am Dutch but had no idea!
i just knew a tornado seperated the dom church with the tower
I remember visiting family abroad and lying outside in the garden to get some sun. They called me inside due to the 'strong wind' and to me it was just a breeze. Spend some time in the Netherlands and you get so used to that stuff you consider a storm 'fun entertainment' and a reason to go outside to clear your head.
Ye if it is not to cold, i love the wind blowing on my head.
Its also very nice if you got a headache.
Exactly
When there is a storm outside people tend to go to the beach "uitwaaien"
I love strong wind, but growing up my parents always talked about that news article where someone died from a falling tree, so now I say inside mostly
Ff achter de dijk of door de polder lopen om je hoofd te legen
End of the world storms - the dutch: lol, its just abit wind, let me grab my bicycle
As a dutchman i will say that Dumpert is mainly for funny clips so most of what you see there isnt that bad
Learning about "Dutch culture" on Dumpert is not a great idea! 😂😂
No, but fun though.
dumpert is definitly not culture is more often then ot lack of it indeed
The weather is just called code red (advised to stay inside) but as seen there alot of people can’t be bothered 😂
Life goes on, work needs doing, chores done, and for those who've got the free time and want to seek thrills this is the best time to get some fun
code red doesnt pay my bills
This is a code red storm.
We also have code red for icy roads and heat.
And yes, I have stepped in my car to drive across the country during code red iciness.
It was pretty fun sliding over the roads like that.
Couldn't go faster than 40 km/h, though.
Didn't want to make it too much of an adventure, especially with kids in the back
storms as extreme as the one in the video are pretty rare. there is some awful rain pretty often. but my mom just said "you're not made of sugar, are you?" and on the bike to school i went! lol
Most Dutch people have rain suits instead of just a rain coat specifically because we have this attitude.
That's one of the reasons why we have storm surge barriers in the Netherlands. (E.g. the Deltaworks)
When it's code red weather sometimes they will close them.
Fortunately this kind of weather is rare.
Also the north has some. Like Ijssel floodbarriers and the coast aroung Friesland Groningen area
During storms some folks go to the beach to go "uitwaaien", to unwind and get some fresh air
My family used to do that, the sea looks awesome during that kind of weather.
Had to bike a few km on top of a dyke to get to school, so sometimes when we had strong wind in the back we biked without holding the handlebars and held your jacket open as a sail.
Balanced the ride back with frontwind……
Most of these clips were shot during one of the worst storms in recent years. I believe it was called storm Poly. It was one of those once-in-a-century storms. I had to do my job as a postman on that day. I had already started my round before my employer decided that it was way too dangerous to send people out. Since I was already outside, I decided I might as well finish work that day.
Most of the mail in the Netherlands is delivered by bike and on foot. It was an extremely unpleasant experience, but definitely not the first time I had to work during a storm.
Postnl is run by onmensen
I thank you for your services,
Postnl was better to you than it was to me.
I remember code red icy roads, and Postnl sending out messages the day before, that delivery staff didn't have to work, as the roads would be too dangerous, while sorting staff was required to come in
My mum decided to just go deliver her mail, because if I had to work, she'd feel guilty staying home, when we both had to ride our bikes and work for the same company.
@@DT-wp4hk Absolutely agree.
In the Dutch we say “ oh,kom op gewoon fietsen.het is maar een beetje wind “
Think the main thing is, in the Netherlands we listened to the story about the 3 little pigs and the wolf and we build our houses out of concrete and bricks instead of plywood. So storms tend to do a lot less damage here compared to the US.
6:29 also, this what we dutch people call a "average monday", no storm
To answer your question. Yes, that was a toilet. 😂
I haven't seen much of that in the clips but it can be quite funny/dangerous on the bicycle as well. I remember that I was pushed off the road by side wind into a large canal. I was lucky and I could just walk out, carrying my bicycle in my arms. I still had to ride home though, through the storm and all wet haha.
I love that you love Dumpert! Also probably a lot of people telling you this but these storms are not that frequent. Of course wind is stronger at the coast in the west but normally it's not this crazy.
As a Dutch person I can say it was kinda windy in those videos
If you find it crazy what we do in the wind you should react to tom scots video about het nk tegenwind fietsen (nk cycling against head wind) that is some crazy shit we do
And last year(?) it was cancelled because of too much wind.
@@JacobBaxWrong kind of wind, the wind was sideways to the track if memory serves.
2:06 The strongest wind in the Netherlands, just like in the rest of the world, hurricane force.
We dont get hurricanes, but locally winds up to hurricane speed are possible. These people just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
During a storm a few years back, a 100kg brick chimney was knocked off my neighbours house. Thankfully no one got hurt.
The best memory I have of extreme weather, is one summer when I was a kid, it rained like 30cm in a few days and all the kids in the neighbourhood went swimming in the street.
Hurricanes is rare but not unheard of. We had a F4 in 1925 and 1927 in the east of the Netherlands near where I live. Also a 9-10 Beaufort storm in the mid 80s.
@@Sander-zj3wiisn‘t that more like a tornado?
Ah yes, but in 1987 do you remember that extreme winter? We could ice-skate on the streets, roads and to school we were iced over for days on end. Oh those good old real winters where have they gone to, nowadays ppl aren't winter hard anymore. Back then (yeah I'm old LOL And no it wasn't better back then, it was quite different than today) we were outside playing all the bloody time, a scarf around our neck, some gloves on, and an extra layer of clothes and socks.c And we went and go played outside until you were a ""popsicle"". Then go home get a hot cocoa,(or whatever hot) and sit near a ""kachel"" heater/ radiator and defrost, and rinse and repeat LOL
@@petermaardananders6803 I wasnt even born in 87 lol.
I do remember when I was little there was one winter where the lakes properly froze over and my grandpa pulled me around on his ice skates, me on a little sled. That was fun.
@@petermaardananders6803 Yep, indeed we did. I remember beginning of 1963 walking on frozen sea in Scheveningen. I was 7 (almost 8) years in those days. Never seen that anymore!
The dude in the video at 8:33 said: "Wow this tree could have dropped on our heads... omg incoming"
Two guys from Dumpert present the videos of the storm Eunice from the beach! 🌬🤣👌🏼
Storm Eunice was an intense extra-tropical cyclone that passed over Europe in February 2022!
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Lol that first clip of the roof flying off I’ve seen happen in real time I lived a street away :’)
the most extreme it got recently was when in the summer of 2021 when there were downdrafts in Leersum that caused immense damage towards the houses. there have been major storms since with tornado speeds but that one was the one that made a lot of impact
I've had my bike ripped from my hands and watched it get blown across an intersection when I still lived in The Hague, where I grew up.
We have storms like this regularly, my trees also broke down last storm. And another few in my street as well. It is scary.
Yes, we get storms like that. Mostly around February. But fear not, we don’t have this weather every day!
I am from the Netherlands and i like your videos, during a storm there is not such a strong wind as a hurricane/tornado, but in our country there is a threat of flooding in the North Sea. A flood disaster occured here in 1953. The provinces of Zeeland, Noord-brabant and Zuid-holland where hit by high storm surges, causing 1800 deaths. Based on that disaster a delta plan was established, many dams and flood defences where built, including the: Brewers Dam, the Maesland Barrier (near Rotterdam) and the Oosterschelde Barrier. The Oosterschelde Barrier consists of 60 enormous gates that can close off the Oosterschelde (an inlet) when high tide comes. The Oosterschelde Barrier is 9 kilometer long. I translated this text with Google translate so i hope you can read it😃 Groeten uit Nederland!!!! (greetings from the Netherlands!!!) Houdoe!, a greeting from Tilburg, A nice city and my hometown in the Netherlands, also worthy of a video😃!!!
Storms with hurricane force winds happen occasionally, but they are almost never true hurricanes in the Netherlands only because they don't usually rotate. Tornadoes happen too, but the lighter ones aren't classified as tornadoes in the Netherlands. If I remember correctly category 1 and 2 tornadoes according to the American system aren't called tornadoes in the Netherlands and category 3 and up are rare. We also sometimes get sudden and local downpours that overwhelm sewer systems and waterways and cause local floodings, but due to Dutch engineering that too is rare. I've been in a few heavy storms and the natural forces involved are amazing. A few weeks ago we had a very local heavy storm that snapped 2 really thick trees (1 meter+ trunks) in half and ripped heavy branches off of some other trees. But the next street just had some twigs and leaves on the ground.
A guy in my region (Vlissingen in Zeeland province) was kite surfing at sea and got catapulted at very high altitude towards the boulevard. He flew right between 2 appartment buildings and survived.
This happens a lot, but most people who are kite surfing in stormy weather are very experienced and skilled.
In my province we have the annual championships of head wind biking. Funny detail: last year it was cancelled because the wind was to heavy (doesn't happen often that it's being cancelled)
When I was a kid we had to bike 16 kilometers in whatever wheater we had, so biking through the storm was quite normal and we were often blown off the biking paths, in the ditches 🤣
When we had extreme storms, I used to go to coast and we would lean with our bodies against the wind. Huge fun!
Belgian here; i remember my old school friend going to the beach with his kite board any time the wind got above gale force 8 (that's Beaufort scale) in order to get his jumps in :D
We live in a natural tornado lane. Sometimes you see tornado's on the northsea
Really strong windstorms like that are rare, one every few years. The worst I was in was in the 1990s. I was in the train from Gouda to Den Haag and it came to a stop in the fields because the overhead wires were about to break. The wind rocked the train from side to side. 😱
I come from the Netherlands myself. We don't always have such strong winds, it is often caused by foreign storms that arrive in the Netherlands weakened.
When I was a kid, we'd housesit for friends of my parents every summer vacation. It was a very short drive from the beach, so we'd go there every day. Especially if bad weather was predicted, because the sea looks awesome when there's a strong wind and rain. Perfect for a walk along the beach. We mostly enjoyed sunshine, though.
A few weeks ago there was a downburst where I live (in the Netherlands) I was looking at the shelfcloud and I could see it started to rotate a little bit. The wind was barely there, the calm before the storm. All of the sudden I could see things flying up in to the air in the distance. I quickly grabbed my cat off of the balcony and when I reached the balcony door the branches of trees were already flying horizontally behind my back. It was a downdburst with gustnado's. Many houses were damaged and a lot of trees went down. I have never seen anything like it before.
Where was this? Back in 2014 there was an extreme downburst in Hoogeveen. It was estimated such a downburst only occurs once every 100 years... Sounds like they were about 90 years off on that one.
@@Dr.BenjiBuddy I remember the one in Hoogeveen. Their calculations were way off indeed! It was in Meppel. The storm caused damage in a range of 50 km. In Meppel it caused a downburst. There are video's of it on the internet. Most of them are of the aftermath. And there is one doorbelvideo that shows 2 people who are very lucky to be alive and how fast it went.
My brother went skating on ice on the streets 7 yrs ago😂
I’m from The a Netherlands and one thing I will always remember was: My son was like 3 (14 year old now) I had to hold him because he almost was literally picked up by the wind and blown away . We also had hail in the size of pingpong balls ..
And by the way with this kind of wind most of us still go to school, work and shopping 😛 most of us just call it a really stormy day 🤣
That clip of the guy with the bike , same happend to me at a trafficlight at a busy crossover😂
One year, wind storm toppled a tree on my car and totaled it, a few years later, it blew part of the roof off of my house, causing leaks down two floors, and a ton of money in repairs. Luckily, both times we were insured.
As a dutch person i will have to mention that code red is the highest warning state we have here. It happens max 2 times a year if it happens at all, but those storms hit HARD.
But as a dutchy i can also safely say if you stay indoors, and dont go walking near tile roofs (cuz those things tend to fly off during storms) then your 100% safe. All our houses are made of stone so other then a broke window or messed up shed we dont suffer much damage. Roofs of company buildings tend to be a lot weaker so you sometimes see them go up, but even then the damage is more then managable.
Oh yes, every year. I live by the coast and it gets rough
The highest I can remember was a 9 on the beaufort scale which equates to a strong gale (47-54mph), strong wind but that's it and quite common I'd say, living in the UK I've not had such experience of the winds like in the Netherlands and here you get a yellow warning for almost nothing imo 🤣.
I don't miss having to bike through this weather for 20km to get to school, and then 20km back 😂
The worst turbulence I ever experienced was last year, when i visited family in Vienna. I went by plane, from Shithol, the Netherlands. The start went well, after a 3 hour delay (the whole flight takes 1,5 hours, you know how pissed I was). Then the flight went well, little bit turbulence, nothing fancy. Until we got into an air bubble during landing. The plane was slammed down on the airstrip while landing, bumping the damn plane up and down four times and then swerving off the strip, until the captain decided to fly around the airport for once. People started screaming and crying and I was like: stfu, then don't go flying if you're afraid. My point is: if you're afraid of flying, then don't fly.
We had hurricane winds last year, i was hoping we'd have them again this year but it seems like that'll be blowing over (i know i'm a freak) it was wild seeing awnings being ripped off during that storm, had a good time walking outside, seen a lot of trees topple over.
The worst weather i had seen however was back in 2002 i think, where the metro Blaak (it's underground portion) had flooded during a freak rain storm, i think it was around 22cm of water.
I'm not sure if the wind is harder here, but it's definitely flat, no mountains, barely any hills to break the wind speeds and little trees. As a kid I had to cycle to school between the fields, where wind had free play as well, I tumbled quite a few times. Sometimes ending up trying to walk, bicycle in hand, but could barely step forward like some people in this video, I would be like 😑 with the wind. Usually only gusts or a short period of time though. I also remember kiting with my brother, I would actually be scared to be pulled up and always let go, although that really annoyed my brother haha. Also, been on the water in a open small sailboat once when all hell broke loose, we had to zigzag / tack to get back to land that felt like a long and bumpy ride haha 🌬😄 A long story short, yea, I think wind is something we do grow up with.
Living way out east in NL I can't relate to these crazy winds at all, but when i visit Friesland i can relate. 2 hour drive and it's like being in a different country with regards to general windiness
kite surfing extreme , yes, absolute fun with gale force (beaufort 9). But also scary .. nowadays i DO check weather forecast.
I think the max winds we get are around a Category 1 hurricane strength, but that's exceptional.
The thing is about our weather not getting recognized or published about is, that it’s kinda normal to us. The weather is also pretty unpredictable. You can almost have to wear every season wardrobe in one day. Also rain at any moment all the time
I remember a few years ago there ware winds like in this video, I have a steel chimney cap (I guess) and because of poor mounting and these incredible winds it blew off and took out several roof tiles, crashed through a sturdy wooden table and broke apart several of the stone slabs of my terrace so that was fun to see happening (I still have nightmares seeing that thing barrelling down my house towards where i was standing)
Thanks for giving us Dutchies some attention. Love to see others like the country I'm born and raised in.
7:36 Near where I grew up a kite surfer was hit by a Truck on the highway😅. (A28 by Ermelo) it's at least 50/75 meters away from the water.
I remember when this storm hit.. I stayed inside for the most part but I did get flung off my bike lol
I was in a heavy storm some 4 years ago. Riding a bicycle on the rondweg in Eindhoven I saw it coming and it seemed far enough for me to get home but then, when I entered the street to the south it came in hard with no place to seek shelter for another 500 meters. Branches flew around me and I had to go on and try to avoid them wich luckily happened and I reached my shelter, and that moment I wasn't scared. I got scared the next day when I got to the same place and saw the branches were like 12" thick and over 8 meters long....
Those 'tornado's' are called 'windhoos' or 'waterhoos' ( the later when occuring above.. water ). They aren't nearly as energetic as a tornado but can cause pretty high wind gusts.
We do get hurricane's, but it's rare. Storm and heavy storm are pretty common though.
when biking to school/work with some wind in your back is probally one of the biggest blessings god can possibly give to you
A few years back we had a pretty harsh storm where I live, and 7 huge trees fell onto the houses in our street. In the entire city trees fell down. The fire department was busy for days getting them all removed. Our shed got demolished. One branch of a tree almost pierced our sleeping room window. A car of a neighbour got hit and crushed, with him and his wife and three children in it. We went out to get them inside, it was madness.
It's super windy in Netherlands bc it next to the sea and completely flat, nothing stops the wind.. We don't (almost never) have typhoons or hurricanes but wind is a part of life for us.
My personal best was in the beach in wind force 12, leaning against the wind in a crazy angle without falling down and getting the prints sandblasted off my new shoes.
Also, you should try watching with subtitles... Or learn Dutch, you seem to love the Netherlands, or maybe I just see your Dutch reviews bc I'm dutch 😁
I did that kitejumping thing for years as a kid, on the north coast of terschelling.
Or open your jacket and bike to school without pedalling.
And code red is the sign to go to the beach or watch big trees break at the lake.
I think we usually have 3 to 5 heavy storms a year that justify a warning, depends on the strenght of the gusts usuallly. Often you can just cycle through with a lot of effort but the gusts are what stops you or take off branches and roof tiles. The insurance companies will usually estimate the damage the nex day in terms of tens of millions rather than hundreds of millions, and sometimes one or two fatalities of people that were exactly in the wrong spot.
I like to go out in the storm, but not too heavy ones because there are treas and roof tiles everywhere.
1:34 When the wind blows your bike out your hands, but your glad it doesn't rain
The craziest weather I've experienced here in the Netherlands is an actual tornado... Which is very rare here. And I didn't even notice it. It happened while I was practicing with the punk metal band that I was in at the time so I guess we were being loud enough to drown out the ruckus outside. When our band practice was done and we exited the building, we saw that roofs had been blown off of neighboring buildings, trees had fallen over, debris strewn about everywhere, it was totally surreal and we missed it all. :D
Dutch thunder storms in the summer can go real brzk locally with 100 / 130 Km/h winds for a short time.
sometimes a F1 tornado is possible.
Also excessive rain ( month value in 1 hour) can happen.
and the town next to it gets totally nothing.
when the weather was like this my parents would still make me cycle 5km to school 😂😂
We work with 3 colored codes for the weather.
Code yellow - So no difference from an ordinary day
Code orange - Yheh, it might be time to put a coat on.
Code red - "Pas een beetje op, er staat een stevig briesje."
Which translates to roughly "It's a bit windy outside."
I feel like last 10 years weather has gotten more and more extreme. Also, no real snowy winters anymore except for some snow in 2021. It's unfortunate
You should see the video with snow and ice it's so funny seeing people cycling and falling.
Or the championship biking against the weather (kampioenschap tegen de wind in fietsen)
Most days we have very good weather, today was 12 degrees and sunny no wind
Maybe you have looked at it already but there must be videos about icy weather in the Netherlands. They can also be legendary and crazy. We do sometimes have very strong winds and small tornados.
It's so funny seeing a foreigner like you watching Dumpert xD you can't go more Dutch than Dumpert I guess.
U might not know this but the Netherlands gets alot of Tornadoes yearly, the main reason u don't hear as much about them is that either they don't do much damage or becouse they are above water and thus away from people and houses.They mainly appear in the north of the country or at the coast.
of course we also get alot of storms and as u saw they can couse quite some damage, especially along the coast.
So the small "tornadoes" you see are called windhoos in Dutch. I think it translates to landspout. They can also form above water, making them a waterspout. They are always very thin, whereas tornadoes are the very heavy variation. We don't get tornadoes here though. You still don't want to get too close to them, but they aren't as dangerous. They are still cool to see, and they can definitely fling light objects around up to even something like a caravan.
Landspout is also correct but another name for them would be whirlwind.
I think I once read somewhere that the Netherlands has the most tornados of all counrties or per square kilometer. We don't think of them as tornados though because of they tend to be very thin. 'Wervelwind' is another word for them.
One has not really been in the NL if you did not have a 4 seasons a day day. Okay, worst storm, In the NL there are polders (google it if you don't know what those are) the one I live in (the eastern Flevopolder) is about 18 ish feet below sea level. Now go back to November 1972, we moved to this new town (Anno 1967) called Lelystad in the E.F.polder in August 1972. Then the polder still was unproven cause untested to be safe against heavy storms and the consequential beating waters surrounding it. The polder was closed and no traffic was safe, because of this extreme November Storm the first real test of how strong the dijken (Dams) were. So most all ppl were kind of scared living on the bottom of the former Southern Sea, called the IJsselmeer (IJssel= pron. isle- and ee=ea as in ear (the IJssel is a river- and meer=lake)) anywho, we all who could not get out of the polder on time, went upstairs with a transistor battery-powered radio, food, drinks, clothing, safety gear, inflatable boats, valuables etc. iof we had those items, to sit it out. well, that was something, haha pigs can't fly ?! Oh really can't they?! Hmm trees did, roofs did cars blew over, street lamps and road signs buckled, roofs flew over roofs. anywho we had no major damage to our street block except rubble all over the bloody place. The worst windpower 12+ storm I have ever experienced, the Dijken withstood it with ease and since then has been upgraded. So don't worry about the polders/ dijken I still live there and haha no storm will make me feel unsafe ever again. Remember the expression "God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands"". Nowadays with all those silly code red-orange and yellow events, ppl are scared (into) for no reason. Crying wolf is what the govt. do at present with those codes for storms in a teacup. Haha youngsters don't even know what a real storm is LOL
We have the Beaufort scale system , from windspeed 0 Beaufort no wind etc. up to 12 Beaufort (max on the scale ) hurricane speeds, and there is one more special for the odd ones out, thus, especially for the NL LOL And that is 12+ or 13( of the scale of Beaufort, because it far exceeds the scale) extreme extreme extreme extreme extreme!! You will most likely be blown over at 9 or 10, no lorries, vans or caravans are allowed the be on the road. trees will lose branches and or fall over, roofs can be in danger. 11 anker yourself and most everything else down, 12 pigs do fly, 12+/ 13 absolute terror and horror!
Yeah, we like breaking wind, and blame the cat ;)
The worst turbulence ever was on a flight back home to Schiphol. On the way to wherever we were going, I think Greece, we had a perfectly normal landing, nothing out of the ordinary, and everyone on the plane clapped.
Then on the way back, the plane was just about to land on the runway and suddenly there was a massive wind sheer, pilot managed to land it very smoothly at a 30 degree angle and nobody clapped. Thats the Dutch mentality. We arent gonna clap for a guy just doing his job lmao.
People clap for a pilot doing the bare minimum he needs to do to keep his job? I've been on a dozen flights and have never seen this happen.
@@orlagskapten9829 Yeah it happens a lot
In the early 90s there were also some heacy storms which blew off half the shingles of our roof. Also during that time my dad thought it was fun to visit the beach but our dachshund almost blew away 😅 My dad had to hold her under his coat and me and my sister were also fighting to stay alive basically 😂😂 It was a short beach trip that day he clearly underestimated the situation (this was also before we lost half our roof 😏)
We get all types of weather in the Netherlands. Storms like that happen maybe a couple times a year now. But that doesn't mean we don't have annoying winds the rest of the year. And still we get on our bicycles!
We don't have hurricanes or tornadoes (technically we do but theyre so minor compared to the big ones that we rarely count them a such) but once every few years we got a few days of this extreme wind, that's the problem with a flat country. Nothing stops it from blowing the country away 😂
Ehm... Dumpert is known for posting stuff that's so ridiculous it becomes funny. Remember that. This is not typical.
I remember one time, the January storm of 1990, when I got picked up by the wind and didn't touch the ground for a few yards. 34 years ago. And the winter of '79, when I skated my way to school over a brick road at -20C. That was 46 years ago, I'm getting on a bit :) It's amazing how we didn't mind the cold as kids, now I grab my blanket immediately.
These were truly exceptional times, not the normal state of things. Dumpert only does exceptional stuff.
We do tend to think 'ok, let's have a bit of fun with this'
Usually these things are very local, it might be really had on 1 street but one further its just normal wind.
The dude going way up at the beach is just a " kite-surfer ", an actual sport world wide... The kite is hooked loosely into a harnass you wear and take the pressure and weight of your arms so you can used your arms just to steer the kite, not using a harnass / safety release is very dangerous and never do it when the wind is straight onto the land ( there've been fatalities when this mistake was made )... Before kite surfing was a thing you could find me and a few friend doing something the same, 1st on ordenairy snow ski's on the sand ( one time being clocked by the cops going between 80 - 85 km's/hour with 2 persons on 1 pair of ski's ) , later we tried on a surfboard, it was a very long walk back to were our car was parked... But yes, we love stormy weather and always try to enjoy it in some sort of weird way...
Windspeed can get up to 180-200km easily. Houses usually don’t get destroyed. A house of stones, or concrete you can not tear down that easily. But let me tell you, I come from south Germany, we usually have no winds there. Living for 20 years here in Amsterdam you get so used to wind, that if there is one day windstill, you feel like something missing. Also always check wind speed leaving with a bike, since it makes no sense riding against the wind.
2:33 dust devil
5:37 funnel cloud (developing tornado/landspout or waterspout if above water)
5:55 waterspout
8:13 dust devil
We Dutch are a rare breed, even in sight of danger we still try to have fun with it ( the sailing on skates and bikes and so on) We do realise that people might die but since we do not have these heavy winds often some of us try to make the best of it and others hide in fear.
I live in the Netherlands and biggest wind was 50 km/h i was going home from work on bicycle but the wind was straight on my back so i flew home
The strongest (sustained) winds in the Netherlands have never reached hurricane speeds. Speeds of 12 on the scale of Beaufort have been reached once, 11 has been reached a couple of times, but most storms cap out at about 9 or 10
We do however get things we call a "windhoos", which are light tornadoes or sometimes even actual tornadoes. Most of the chaotic distruction you've seen where it's hard to see what's actually happening is because of those. Or because of something we call a "valwind" (fall wind), which are very strong gusts of wind. I think those can reach hurricane levels of winds for several seconds
Worst wind i got was over a decade ago when i was going home from school it was faster to step off the bike and walk then try to cycle against the wind 😂
6:41 wasn't this from the 3 storms in one week thing in 2022 Dudley Euginie and Franklin? The UK had it own floods and storm damage, no airtime for our storm problems
8:45 yeah that happens here (the netherlands) as well
What I mostly like about these storm videos is sending them to people who claim “build your house out of brick, then a hurricane won’t destroy your house” while in in these videos a storm literally destroys brick houses. And the winds in the Netherlands don’t get as bad as the winds during a tornado.
I’m born and raised in The Netherlands. The number of roofs I’ve seen blown off houses over the years… those roofs are about as heavy as an entire wood build single family home in the US. And yet, the wind picks them up like it’s nothing. What you’d think a hurricane would do to those houses?
1 big hail stones 2 windhoos(windblast)3 mini twisters 4 rain that overflow heigth of water 5 floods 6 bugs storms 7 thunder storms 8 surprise blizzards😅😊
Worst turbulence was a sudden altitude drop of a few 1000 feet in a minute
I don't know whether we get classified tornadoes in the Netherlands, but we had a katabatic wind (valwind in Dutch) on June 18, 2021 that gave a few million euro's of damage. June 17 2021 had horrendous whether in France and Belgium: France had winds of 100 km/ph, and in Belgium they spoke that day of a small tornado.