Due to a malfunction at Buienradar, a significantly incorrect weather forecast was temporarily displayed for Friday, August 15th. The website stated that temperatures would be around 40 degrees Celsius, with wind force 12, indicating a hurricane.
According to Buienradar, the error lay in the “automatic forecast,” which the website generates based on weather models. The hourly weather forecast is not manually entered every hour but is automated using weather data.
“Usually this goes well, but now there is an error somewhere at the end of the forecast in the delivery of this weather data,” the weather service writes. The extreme weather forecast was widely shared on social media.
The error has now been corrected. The website shows an expected temperature of 24 degrees Celsius with wind force 1. “It should be noted that this is still far in advance,” Buienradar notes. Such a forecast is therefore not entirely certain. We wrote about this earlier in the article below.
It is not the first time a malfunction has occurred at Buienradar. For example, in the winter of 2022, it was supposedly 70 degrees below zero in Volkel. This was not due to a glitch in the weather forecast but to a measurement error at the weather station at Volkel Air Base itself.