According to the 1:00 p.m. newspaper published by RTL Info on Sunday lunchtime, a meteorologist named David Dehenauw said that the month of July, which is about to come to a close, was the sixth driest month of the year since 1885.
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The Royal Meteorological Institute's reference station at Uccle only registered a scant 5 millimeters of rainfall in comparison to the 3 millimeters that were recorded there in 1885. David Dehenauw noted that around 70 millimeters of rain is considered to be the regular average for the month of July.
On the other hand, we did not set a new record for the length of a drought since the measures were based on a period of ninety days. The time period from May to July 1976 is still the one that has the lead for the time being.
The absolute temperature record that had been achieved in Belgium was not surpassed this month, as shown by other aspects of the climatological report that was compiled by the IRM. It still dates back to the 25th of July, 2019, at Begijnendijk, Flemish Brabant, when the temperature was 41.8 degrees.