DUTCH WEATHER and How to Enjoy It | The Dutch Way of Life
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2020
- As an American expat, Dutch weather takes some getting used to. Everyone always complains about the rain in the Netherlands. Dutch weather is awful, they say. Well, in this video I share my experiences of how to not just survive the weather in the Netherlands, but also how to enjoy it.
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I like to share my experiences of an American expat in the Netherlands. I describe both the unique and everyday aspects of Dutch culture, and life in Holland while enjoying every bit of it!
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I love the dramatic Dutch weather too. And I also go to the beach in the winter, we even have the new year's dive! I rented a holiday house on Texel in the winter, it was great and really cheap! We got free firewood with the house too!
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Life in the Netherlands is so good that we really only have the weather to complain about.
Zeker
En de overheid
En BLM zeikers
@@MrsMijnNaamIsAnoniem XD
@@Ronny_van_Gerwen Ik denk dat je de racisten bedoeld. Of ben je de Nederlandse rol in de slaven handel alweer vergeten?
"Je bent toch niet van suiker?" An expression used when someone complains about going out in the rain. It translates to: "You're not made of sugar, are you?"
@buymebluepills altijd? voor die 2 keer?
@buymebluepills :)
@buymebluepillsbeschuldig een ander niet van iets waar je jezelf mogelijk schuldig aan maakt, 'weldenkend persoon'. Wat je ook van een discussie vindt, als je een ander zo disqualificeert dan moet je wel heel zeker zijn van je zaak.
@buymebluepills Inderdaad dat is een feit. Maar zelfs als er tijdens een demonstratie geweld plaats vindt, disqualificeert dat een demonstratie niet. Geweld is niet goed, maar iedere situatie moet beoordeeld worden op de inhoud en in haar context.
@buymebluepills Wat een onzinnige vergelijking. Als 10 miljoen mensen demonstreren voor een goed doel en een paar honderd of een paar duizend gebruiken daarbij geweld. Is de hele groep daar dan schuldig aan? Is het doel daarmee slecht? Kan je die dingen niet scheiden of wil je ze expres niet scheiden?
"Motregen" has many droplets but they are really tiny.
It feels a bit like mist that turned into rain.
You will know when it is motregen; only a bit of water but you will get wet a lot.
yes that is the most shitty type of rain we get in the netherlands,
Plantenspuit op je bakkes
I really enjoy your comments on living in the Netherlands. Eloquent and truthful. It shows you are interested in Dutch culture. What you say is of interest to newcomers. Keep on going!
I've seen five different kinds of weather all trying to crowd in together at the same time when I was living in Amsterdam. It was quite a change from the neverending sameness of Los Angeles. I did learn to always go out wearing my raincoat because like a broken watch, it'll still be right twice a day.
This is why I love expat videos like these; Being Dutch I never really realized we talk about the weather all the time until this quirk was pointed out to me
We don't use the umbrella because of the wind. When it drizzle it's always going under your umbrella. Our houses are so cozy because of the weather . By the way you are speaking good dutch..
"you speak dutch very well..."
When i went to Vegas in december last year, that was a funny thing to me. The way people there thought about the weather.
They were like its cold and raining, everybody had on like winter/warm clothes and were running because of the rain.
Me walking around as a Dutch person, this isnt rain, maybe a slight drizzle or a few drops, whats the problem. Also its like 13-15 degrees in the evening, this is not cold
I really enjoy your videos and your view on our country. Lovely perspective and eloquently desscribed. I did miss "rokjesdag" in your weather video. Thats a very typical recent dutch thing. Keep making videos!
After living for 4 months in the Netherlands I am kind of obsessed with the country and Dutch culture right now and I am really enjoying your observations. They overlap with many things that caught my attention as well. I also like how authentic your stories are, as if we are having a drink and we are talking. Keep it up! :)
I really admire your positivity :-) I already watched quite a few of your videos, but today I finally subscribed. I hope you continue to enjoy it here :)
Mot in motregen is etymologisch (I had to look it up myself) connected to 'möt' (fine sand in ancient german). But your explanation sounds very plausible too, like moths tickling you, haha
'mot ‘fijn stof’ zoals in de samenstellingen torfmot ‘turfmolm’ [1460-87; MNW] en styenmut ‘steengruis’ [1373-76; MNW]; nog Gronings mot ‘turfmolm, opveegsel’, motblik ‘stofblik’.
Mnd. mut ‘gruis, afval’; mhd. mot ‘zwarte, veenachtige aarde’; nfri. mot ‘turfmolm’; oe. mot ‘turfmolm, afval’ (ne. mote ‘stofje’); nzw. dial. muta ‘motregenen’.'
Ahaaa
in groningen (i grew up in the turf area) they call the crumbs left over in the bottom of a pouch of tobacco "mot" too.
Great and spot on observations
Nice. You really described the weather and related dutch customs recognizable good.
We have all kinds of weather here. Winters have been much warmer in the last 10-15 years than before. We hardly have frost anymore. Summers are also getting much warmer and drier. Last summer we even had temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. Nice video. Ik heb geabonneerd !
A Erica. With Dutch heritage here. My grandparents, and even my dad had/have an obsession with discussing the weather. I never realized it to be a cultural distinction, but it makes so much sense now. Thanks for the video, it brought back some great memories of my grandparents and made me smile a bit this morning
Eva your dutch pronounciation is perfect!
Summer in the Netherlands. ♥️ It was a lovely day !!!
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I really love your comments about living in the Netherlands. And your Dutch is truly great! 😊👍😊
the real dutch thing is to "b*tch" about the weather ....
when it is hot like summer people get cranky if they have to work and want rain, then it starts to rain and after two days they start saying, "it always rains here, where is the freaking sun and the warmth...." then a few days later the sun is out and shining full and it is too hot again ....
btw the weather convo is kinda like the "american" "how are you" .... it is conversation and "testing the waters" to who is in front of you,
people that say "hey it is nice weather" are in what ever weather more positive, but when they start complaining (a dutch sport i guess) you know they are on the heavy side of life and there is something under the skin in general. (not always personal towards the one asking ....)
It rains pijpenstelen, pipe stems, look up a picture of a dutch clay pipe and look at the stem, its about 6 mm/ 1/4" thick and 30 cm/12" long, it means the rain comes down resembling a clay pipe stem, like a tropical afternoon monsoon.
You can find these handmade clay pipes everywhere in the dutch landscape In farmland, for hundreds of years farmers out in the field used these handmade pipes, every now and then the farmer would brake of the last bit of the pipe to get a nice clean mouthpiece, when it would get to short and burn the farmers lips the short left over of the pipe was discarded in the field.
As a teenager in the 80's in a small rural town in north-holland my "vacation job" was bollen rooien, tulip bulb harvesting, by hand, in the fields, knees down in the mud picking them up one by one, in dutch weather, but hey!, money! , i found dozens of these pipe heads so i read up about them, they are fascinating every day used items and finding one means you are sitting knees down in the same mud someone 300 years ago doing the same thing i was doing did act of environmental pollution 😉
During my five years in the Netherlands- a time that I loved- I found January the worst month of the year in terms of adjusting to the weather: cold, windy, and wet.
Don't forger November and December!
I wonder how much English speaking actually watch these videos.
It's probably only chauvinistic Dutch people... like me 🙃
About the rain: hozen actually is emptying a boat of water with a bucket, so a lot of water.
Just watched some of your vids.
Verry entertaining.
So I subbed. ;)
A Dutchman myself, I love these differences in cultures thingy's. ;)
Het regent pijpenstelen is where rain drops fall continuesly and form long stripes. Pijpenstelen comes from the long stretched 17th century lime stone smoking pipes you can see on old dutch paintings like those of the famous painter Frans Hals.
In theaters the people up in the balconies smoking those pipes, would break off a piece of the stem and throw it down onto the people sitting in the main areas. If it was very busy it would be raining pipe stems.
We also have live weather presenters at the end of news daily here in Norway. And yes, we do talk a lot about it!
You do have a lot of words for this in English too (well, maybe mostly British English): sprinkle, drizzle, mizzle, Scotch mist, shower, rainstorm, cloudburst, torrent, downpour, deluge, squall, thunderstorm, ...
You should ask your girlfriend about the newyears dive (nieuwjaars duik).
I love a walk by the beach when its really storming hard.
The rough see looks then so beautiful and the waves so big.
Love your video's hope you stay in Holland.
A like when you started talking about umbrella use!
my partner always prefers to take her big sturdy windproof umbrella for both of us to shelter under when we visit the netherlands, it's the only umbrella that can cope with the dutch winds.
I was really impressed with the Norwegians and their ability to deal with the weather. They outclass us Dutchies by far on this front. There's no bad weather in Norway, only insufficient equipment.
It depends on where you are in Norway though. Bergen is like Scotland. Eastern Norway is much dryer.
And the elephant in the room: our climate is changing. The wet, cold weather of yore is no more. It’s warmer and dryer. People that lived here more than 40 years can confirm. :)
I am here for the fox on the sofa ...classic 😃
I lived for 6 years in Sweden. One big factor to come back was the moderate climate here. All is really related to what you were grown up with.
Ik wou iets algemeens melden: ik zag veel filmpjes op youtube over nederland. En, de jouwe zijn eigenlijk de enige leuke☺️. Van de jouwe word ik blij of ze raken me intens.
I use a few other words for different sorts of precipitation:
Snegen = sneeuw die natter is dan natte sneeuw; direct bij neerkomen is het een druppel.
Snagel = sneeuw die opnieuw is bevroren tijdens z’n val en meerdere van deze opnieuw bevroren vlokken een soort semiharde bol is geworden (lijkt vallend op hagel maar valt langzamer en lost sneller op).
Ragel = hagel die onderweg zo warm is geworden dat bij neerkomen het een druppel wordt. Valt langzamer dan hagel.
There might be some rain on a lot of days (although it seems to get dryer since 2000 or so) but it is seldom all day. If you cycle to work every day and back, the chance to get wet is less than 10% or so. Just make a note of the times you get wet and be surprised.
Annual precipitation (includes snow, hail, etc.)
Reference evaporation should be added to make the numbers more meaningful.
Netherlands 790mm 31.1"
UK (national average) 885mm 34.8"
UK (Crib Goch, Snowdonia) 4,473mm 176.1"
UK (London) 650mm 25.6"
UK (East England) 600mm 23.6"
Germany 700mm 27.6"
Belgium 818mm 32.2"
France (dry regions) 500mm 19.7"
France (wettest region) 986mm 38.8"
Spain 650mm 25.6"
Italy (driest parts) 500mm 19.7"
Italy (Alps) 2,000mm 78.7"
San Antonio, Texas 790mm 31.1"
I am retired now but have been working for a company organizing sportive events for 16 years. We always had an alternative program in case it rained too much to go on with the standard program. It will surprise you to learn how many times we have had to use that alternative program: almost never!
A lot of the threat level of rain is only perceived by looking out the window and then deciding it is raining too much to go outside.
I always get so frustrated when I go on holiday and I don’t know exactly when it will rain! I use Buienradar 5 times a day at minimum lol.
Even when the sun is out around 16.00 or sometimes a little earlier we go “borrelen” specially if we’r not sure how long Howe long the sun will last
Dutch weather can be really local. On more than one occasion I was standing in the sunshine wile it was raining at the end of the street. It is also possible to feel the sunshine on your face while you are standing in the rain. No kidding.
B.t.w. I love your posts;-)
In the Netherlands we have changing weather 365 days a year and we acknowledge that fact, thus it's an item in the news
Just a new reaction on Dutch weather.. how do you like the weather now Ava? It’s better than the blistering heat that a major part of the US has to deal with now.. just returned from the States ( Arizona, Utah and Colorado) and mannnn.. what a heat!!
Still want to talk about how nice the sunshine is here after this week? :D
When I lived in the Hague, every time there was a significant downpour you got a nice reminder why the Dutch don't generally use umbrellas. And *especially* why they don't use them in windy coastal cities: the garbage cans absolutely fill up with broken umbrellas. And while you _can_ cycle with an umbrella, it's a hassle, and frankly a bit dangerous.
Also depends on the season... coolest is summer rain when you get sunshine and rsin at the same time. We've got a lot of wind too... umbrella useless. The Storm umbrella was actually invested by a Dutch guy... just saying :)
Yes, Dutch people always complains about the weather, but if we didn't have that much of rain, our land was not so green as it is today. but i still love my country.
I love your country too!
The weather really isnt that bad, it really doesnt rain that much! Im outside every weekend and usually its dry!
you forgot the increddible cloud sky's, we have ..
We are the same in Scotland ❤🏴
The reason to go to the beach in winter/autumn is because the rough sea is also beautiful. I'm not going to let a bit of wind and low temperatures discourage me. Also, very few umbrellas can stand up against the winds here, so why bother.
I love the rain period
I'd like to coin a new one "snegel" (a mixture of snow and hail, sneeuw & hagel)
Storm is not rain! Storm = storm, as in a hard wind ;)
Nice how you explain from a Americans view , but the wether is a bit more then that. Last year it was even 42 gr C on one day and there is still a short on water from the last 3 summers. What I here from. People out Africa or Arabian is that it is so moist that it feels more warmer than in there countries at home.
And Buienrader helps us to know with work ore event we can do (rain - can we paint ore walk, wind- can we go out with a boat or using the crane to build , the level of rain thats gone a fall for your garden ore farmers the heat to start earlier before the sun is burning at noon ore the cold to get earlier to deice your car etc etc
But first of al stay safe and enjoy !
yeah sometimes it just rains for a week, although i have noticed a decline in rain for the past few years.
Me too, so pollution can’t be that bad
Wait till we get a real winter when there is ice you can see everybody ice scating on the canals and lakes everywhere!
The weather in the provinces near the coast is different from the ones more inland.
The provinces in the east and southeast are the dryest, the hottest (40°C) in summer (I had three heatwaves) and coldest in winter except the the northeast part.
RainToday app is much more accurate than buienradar. Yes we use umbrellas but in very busy cities with small pavements they are a nuisance.
Miezeren= motregen light.
Hozen=plenzen
Den helder is noxtourinously windy (i live there to)
I posted this today somewhere, because guess what? It's still a bit of wet snowing near the coast now in the Netherlands. More and heavier earlier today, but still. That's still rain on the ground...
Den Helder :-) The place to be!!!
Umbrellas only work when it's not windy
leuke video , en wist je ook dat ze per profincie ook nog andere woorden kunnen gebruiken voor het weer ?? ik kom zelf uit de achterhoek , en hier gebruiken we woorden die ik je zal besparen om te leren , want dat is echt NIET te snappen als je hier niet bent geboren :)
It hardly ever rains the whole day in the Netherlands. Only a few days. If you want less rain while living in the Netherlands, move to the Arnhem region., it can happen that it rains in the whole country, except in Arnhem. Has to do with the rivers (Rijn, Waal and Maas and the hills). Rainclouds like to go around Arnhem. Not all the time, but more than elsewhere in the country.
Same in wezep (north end of the same hills/forest) stuff literally circles around the village if its coming from the south or southwest.
The line if often literally along the river IJssel, so many times that i rode back home from school in zwolle getting soaked in the city and dry as soon as i crossed the bridge over the river.
yeah, the weather here is fine, it's only a maritime type climate thats gone crazy lol, one day it's raining and a bit cold the next day is really hot and humid
A storm isn't technicality a rain term. It can storm without rain too.
Umbrella's are annoying because they don't really work when it's raining a lot, or when you are riding on a bike. And at the end of the day, you are just stuck carrying around a stick that is completely drenched with water and makes everything wet around you
On any given location in the Netherlands, it rains only 10% of the days of the year. And then not even the whole day. Only a few hours on average. You make it sound worse than it is. By the way, the Dutch have a saying for people hesitant of going into the rain. "you are (I am) not made of sugar".
Yeah, its 0.1+ mm of rain in 185 days, that can mean a severe thunderstorm or a weak splash of motregen.
where i live (apeldoorn) it rains a LOT, we get the most rain per year in the whole of the netherlands(way more than 35 days a year). it is because it is on the edge of the veluwe and this makes it rain a lot more from what i understand.
You must be confused. On a particular spot in the Netherlands, it rains between 120 and 180 days (30-50%). With an avarage 30 minute commute, you only get wet once every 10 trips (which is still once a week by the way). Some think that's not so bad, but compared to most other countries, it's quite wet here, and very unpredictable.
Also the umbrellas break in the wind.
we have too much wind for umbrella's, het giet is another type of rain
There's this Dutch guy who kept a record (over a period of 11 years) of all the days he got wet, bicycling to work and back.
Surprising as it may seem, it hardly ever rains in the Netherlands: on average just 10% of the time.
Go to his website, and convince yourself: www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl/ 🙂
No mention of New Year's Dive or Rokjesdag? It looks like you still have some inburgering to do ;)
I am dutch and I have never heard of rokjesdag
@@mariadebake5483 It's not an official holiday, but rather an unofficial one. The term was coined by a guy called Martin Bril and celebrates the first really nice, sunny day of the year, when skirts are all of a sudden worn by a large part of the population.
@@darkjannn Not here. I live in Noord-Brabant and I never noticed anything of it
I'm an umbrella guy, the rain jacket and pants make me hot and sweaty, so i end up more wet with all that gear on than using an umbrella.
Weather is super important to the Dutch because, dutch weather can change 3 or 4 times a day. So planning your walk or outdour sports is knowing when it is going to rain.
A Portland, Oregon resident would feel quite at home.
Regarding umbrellas, those are an egoistic invention. It's only meant for yourself and while using, other people have to watch out to prevent that thing come in to your face, and you block the view of others around you. So the more egoistic a society is, the more the umbrella will be used.
People complaining about the huge amount of rain in The Netherlands don't have a garden or a farm. Because when you do have a garden or a farm you know how little rain is falling. We are living in Delta country, the Rhine being the main river, and had a shortage of tapwater last summer. Mind you! Shortage of tapwater in a delta. At a certain point we were not allowed to wash our cars or water the lawn remember? On average, it rains only 3% of the time, so it is mostly dry. Summer lasted from March until mid September this year. With several heatwaves. Just like last year, when the watertable was over 1 meter lower than normal. Or was that 2 years ago? Anyway, the level of the groundwater is still too low, due to a lack of rain. Why aren't the heatwaves mentioned? Heatwaves happen in this country as long as I can remember, I'm 57 years old b.t.w.
Yeah @09:00 uitwaaien is a Dutch thing!
Hahaha ik kreeg een buienalarm melding tijdens het kijken van deze video ☔
I don't mind the rain
I just go outside the way i normally do
It's only water
We have 50% of the days that have rain, but only 5% of the time it's raining. That's because most buien are short.
We do have a lot of clouds though...
and slowly whe are getting the weather what they have in the states
Well lucky for you we are in the middle of a multi-year drought haha.
Je paraplu overleeft vaak de wind niet, vandaar regenkleding, hondenweer in Nederland :-)
My girlfriend and I just agree that you are very 'gezellig'. :)
Are those 'rainy days' days that it rains somewhere in the country? Because I don't feel like I have to go through the rain every other day at all.
And no AC when it's warm like today :-(
180 days that have rain , can be one little bit for 5 min
I was born near the sea. The umbrellas I had, were destroyed by the wind. That is why I don't use an umbrella. And... I can't ride my bike while holding an umbrella.
How are you enjoying the snow these days?
yes, wind can be a nuisance for umbrellas especially when they constantly get blown inside out.
my partner often walks along the seafront and she had many of her umbrellas blown inside out and often wrecked by the coastal winds. but she has now found and brought a very good big sturdy windproof umbrella that copes with gusty strong winds and survived windy coastal walks many times. we used it in holland many times when it was very wet and windy susanne xx
I have been living in the US for about 10 years now and I got so confused by the way the US uses the term "storm". The first time the local weather service in my town announced a snowstorm, I was backing for heavy snow and high winds. There was moderate to heavy snowfall, but barely a breath of wind. The same goes for all the rainstorms and thunderstorms that I have experienced.
Only a few times did I experience an actual storm, as in one with high winds (more than 6 Beaufort) and half of them don't even register with me as a storm. Silly Americans :D
It’s not just the Dutch, here in Scotland we have all four seasons in one day!!!!! Or sometimes in half an hour!!!!!!Z
the weather is on every europes main news segment
Love you
I nkow u live i the randstad. Would be nice if i take a look at the wadden island s ,Terschelling
Talking about the weather actually doesn't count as a conversation. It's what people do when they don't know what to say.
And now it is hot....well for dutch people!
A good way to combine "buienradar" with something extra is "www.kanikeenkortebroekaan.nl/" (lit. translated as "can i wear a pair of short trousers ?"). A funny website that uses the weather forecast in combination with that important question. If it will be cold, rainy, s,owy or very windy, the site will tell you "Nee". Warm and sunny weather results in a "Ja". A funny way to choose your outfit for the next day.
It's raining cats and dogs - het regent bakstenen - it's raining bricks