We live in a strange world. Normally, not a week goes by in the Netherlands without rain. The winter this year was particularly wet, with hardly a dry day until mid-March. The weather turned around on March 22nd, bringing lots of sunshine and high temperatures. Hardly a drop of rain has fallen since, giving rise to one of the longest dry spells in the Netherlands in recorded weather history. The drought ended yesterday with some mild showers, and today we plunged straight into the other extreme: the amount of rain expected for today is half of what normally falls in the entire month of May. I guess Mother Nature stocked up for a month and a half and is now going to unload her entire supply in a few days.

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