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Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 14-07-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 28.7°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 19.5°C / Max 30.6°C | Kans op neerslag 1%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 19.5°C, Max 30.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1020.2 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 41°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 27.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 21:00: 26.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 37°
• 22:00: 24.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 23:00: 23.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.1 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 39°
• 00:00: 22.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• 01:00: 22.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 37°
• 02:00: 21.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 39°
• 03:00: 21.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 39°
• 04:00: 20.8°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 34°
• 05:00: 20.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 29°
• 06:00: 20.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 37°
• 07:00: 20.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 37°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 15 juli: Min 20.5°C, Max 29.9°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 44°
• donderdag 16 juli: Min 20.5°C, Max 28.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ↘️ -2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 25°
• vrijdag 17 juli: Min 17.9°C, Max 24.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ↘️ -4.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 344°
• zaterdag 18 juli: Min 16.8°C, Max 20.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ↗️ +3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.4 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°
• zondag 19 juli: Min 16.1°C, Max 20.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1020.9 hPa ↗️ +3.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.8 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 337°
• maandag 20 juli: Min 15.7°C, Max 21.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1022.7 hPa ↗️ +1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 327°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 28.7°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 25.1°C (-3.6°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 40°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 45.7 km/h (12.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 39%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1019.4 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 37.9 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.5
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:39 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:56

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 46 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.4 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.3 μg/m³

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Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, according to him, artificial general intelligence (AGI) “is probably only a few short years away" and we've got to figure it out before it's too late. That “probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hassabis’ lengthy, early-morning Tuesday post on X. Like commercially viable fusion power and practical fault-tolerant quantum computing, AGI seems perpetually asymptotic to the present moment, with needed technological advancements always the next step in the process. No amount of hyperbole - not even a Nobel laureate with skin in the game predicting an impact “perhaps 10x of the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed” - makes the AGI timetable any more certain. Recall that Hassabis predicted in the beginning of 2025 that human trials of AI-designed drugs would come that year, and that still hasn’t happened either. Regardless of the questionable prognostications, the main argument in Hassabis’ essay – that we need to establish international standards for classifying AI safety and risk – is worth serious discussion, and his arguments for it are sensible. “I’m confident that mitigating the technical risks related to AI is a challenge we can collectively address, but only if we give ourselves the time and space to get this next crucial step right,” Hassabis said. “Currently, as a field and as a wider society, we aren’t doing that.” He’s got that right, at least. Hassabis proposes that the US ought to create a new standards body to evaluate frontier AI models in the same vein as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the private, industry-funded self-regulatory organization that oversees US broker-dealers under SEC supervision and is charged with protecting investors and safeguarding market integrity. 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He further proposes that frontier labs should be allowed to help the standards body develop those benchmarks – again, at least for a while until it gets up to speed. “Eventually the Standards Body should build up the technical capacity to create its own held-out tests independent of the Labs to prevent overfitting.” The hope is that this US-led effort would eventually lead to international frontier AI assessment standards, though whether the international community would stomach another imposition of US rules on the global stage is questionable at this point. The Trump administration has already proposed something similar for testing frontier AI models before their broader release. 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