Further snow is forecast from Wednesday, but it is still unclear how precisely how much snow will fall in our region. On Monday there had been talk of as much as 10cm of snow falling on Wednesday. However, now forecasters are less certain. The VRT’s weatherman Bram Verbruggen says that “a front is on its way, but the 1-million-dollar question is how far north it will reach. I expect a few centimetres of snow or sleet”.
On Monday the forecasters seemed certain that a so-called “snow bomb” was set to go off in the skies above Belgium on Wednesday. As much as 20cm of snow were forecast for upland areas of Wallonia with 10cm forecast for Flanders.
Today though the forecasters have changed their tune. Bram Verbruggen says that in any case there won’t be a snow, that is a big exaggeration. Up until now I have always taken it with a big pinch of salt. We will have to see how the weather modals evolve”.
How far north?
The difficulty for weather forecasters is predicting just how far north the front bringing the snow will come. “The front will move from south to north and a little towards the east too. The big question is how far north it will go”.
"The trajectory of a front is calculated using weather models. Most weather modals make new calculations every 6 hours. With every new calculation the front is deviating more from its original predicted course”.
As things stand at it looks like most of tomorrow’s snow will fall in the south of country with Flanders likely to only see a scattering of snow, sleet or even rain. Bram Verbruggen says that there further west you are the more likely you are to see rain or sleet rather than snow.
As things currently stand the forecast is for rain or sleet in East and West Flanders, at the most 1 or 2 cm in Antwerp Province and between 1 and 5 cm in Flemish Brabant and Limburg Province.
Meanwhile, as much as 15 cm of snow is still forecast for parts of Wallonia. Rain rather than snow is forecast for Luxembourg Province.