The case is also unusual that serious. According to the Belgian tourism professionals, weather would flee the tourists mistakenly announcing, a time depressing for the summer. And for cause, the Belgium known 87.5% of dry hours against 12.5% to wet episodes since the beginning of the month of July, according to data from the royal Meteorological Institute.

The resorts are mounted the niche first, referring to a possible recourse to justice. They estimate between 5 to 7 million euros revenues that they could lose with these little lenient forecasts, extending over three months forecast wind. "It is very difficult to predict the time also long term." So why do panic people? ", deplored Hoorens Geert, responsible for tourism at the Belgian coast."

National controversy

The fronde also won amusement, particularly thriving parks during the summer. "Why not talk Sun instead of thinning, too restrictive?", asked Mr. Parent, quoted by the Belga Agency. Parks and call the media to review their semantics in the writing of their weather and more emphasize confidence indices and the number of hours of sunshine.

On the side of weather Belgium, the time is clearance. The founder of the site, Xavier Lizin, considers that no data has been wrong so far. He called the protesters to make a distinction between forecasts and trends, reliability is not the same.