(9 Feb 2021) A deep winter freeze gripping the Netherlands, with subzero temperatures is forecast to last more than a week.
Boats moored in a marina in the village of Monnikendam, just north of Amsterdam on the Markermeer Lake were swathed in swirling sheets of ice on Tuesday.
Parts of central and northern Europe as well as Britain have been gripped by a cold weather front since the weekend that the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Dutch national weather service, dubbed Storm Darcy.
The lowest temperature in the Netherlands in eight years was recorded in the far east of province Gelderland on Monday night, when the temperature dropped to -15.4 Celsius (4.28 °F).
The water level of the Rhine reached its highest level at Lobith on the border with Germany.
The river rose to 14.53 metres (47.6 feet) above sea level at the measuring point, but the water level is expected to drop by about 60 to 70 centimetres a day starting tomorrow.
High water, snow and ice have been hampering inland shipping in recent days.
Amid these freezing conditions, ice fever swept the nation on Tuesday.
The cold weather is reawakening the national obsession with skating on frozen canals.
While it offered a welcome respite from grim coronavirus news while also creating a challenge for authorities trying to uphold social distancing rules.
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