DMI is in no doubt: reporting big weather change

Zealand and around lying islands are a little in the middle, and will experience a little of each.

There are both periods of many clouds and periods of lots of sun.

Both Saturday and Sunday, showers and rain can reach the area from the east, but they throw away only a few mm. The temperature can sometimes reach 18 degrees.

However, one thing the whole country will have in common. The wind will most of the weekend be easy to fresh from northern directions.

The sustained dry spring weather can be felt on the nationwide drought index that is approaching 9, which means we are on the threshold of a decidedly drought day.

In the 21 years we have drought data from, it has never been so dry so early in the year.

Several places in South and Eastern Denmark are the index close to the maximum level of 10 – a level that has actually already reached in Gedser.

A drought index of 10 means that all the water the upper soil layer had on March 1 was used up, which corresponds to the disappearance of 100 liters of water per day. square feet.

The drought index has a natural oscillation throughout the year and is typically increasing during the spring and summer, where on average more water evaporates than rainfall falls.

The normal drought index level here in mid-May is 5.4, while today we have a country number of 8.8. The difference between the two numbers corresponds to 34 mm of rainfall, which is equivalent to more than half of May’s normal rainfall.

Towards the end of the weekend, however, a minor change of weather begins to draw on the horizon. On the night of Monday, a front zone moves in over the country from the northeast and is expected to give some rain for a period – especially in the southern and eastern part of the country.

However, the rainfall appears to be relatively modest and will hardly have any significant effect on the widespread drought that characterizes the landscape.