Weather always used to bad this time of the year - but in recent years one nasty storm seems to come after another. And it was the first time since the installation of the Dutch artificial water barriers that they were actually used. Overall costal defenses have been challenged since Friday, but the weather was not as bad as feared.

The weather is getting more extreme here - climate change is happening. I am curious what kind of winter we gonna have in Europe this year? Super mild like last year or an extremely cold, long and tons of snow like two years ago. A ‘normal’ winter seems out of the question these days.