First 6 months set a new weather record

The first six months of the year were the wettest on record, the VRT's weather presenter Frank Deboosere confirmed. The measuring station in Ukkel, which is used as the main reference, has seen 608 millimetres of precipitation so far, breaking the previous 1937 milestone of 543 mm.

An average year only has 399 mm of rain, snow or hail in the first 6 months. The driest start to the year - since records began in 1833 - was in 1976, when Belgium had only 177 mm precipitation. The summer would then continue to be very hot and dry. Some experts claim that this extremely wet start will be followed by a very wet and unstable month of July