The weather report is one big lie

In my life, there are a few things I rely on: black coffee in the morning, my best friend who always answers her phone when she feels it's necessary, my boyfriend who makes breakfast (yes really), the guest dog who hops with joy when I've been gone for just one minute and... the weather report. Now it turns out that last one is a lie.

Maybe you know that since corona I've been walking, quite fanatically, if I may say so, because I've expanded my morning walk with an evening edition. So now I walk at least an hour twice a day, and luckily I temporarily have a guest dog who justifies this behavior. Before I leave the house, I check the temperature (from 10 degrees in a sweater, from 15 in a T-shirt and above 20 with water), the chance of rain (we survive drizzle without a jacket) and of course thunderstorms. My route goes through forests and over open landscapes, so this is quite essential. But now it turns out that the rain app can't predict whether it thunders and lightens at all. What?

I already had my doubts about the institute, because it was supposed to rain all week like crazy and today would be dry. I hereby predict a wet Friday afternoon. But safety meteorologist Hissel Hooman (responsible for code yellow) from the KNMI confirms to EenVandaag that it often doesn't hold true, especially during thunderstorms. A random radar app apparently takes a last picture from the radar and extrapolates that over time. In practice, a shower doesn't work like that, because they can develop so quickly that they don't even appear on your app. So if you think that a thunderstorm will just miss you and you can still bike to the Jumbo, that's not the case at all and you're standing next to a building praying that they have good lightning rods.

My rain app is a lie, I need to recover from this news. Goodness gracious.