A rare summer storm with winds of up to 145 kilometres (90 miles) per hour hit the Netherlands today, causing residents to stay indoors and travel was severely disrupted.A 51-year old woman died in Haarlem after a tree fell on the car she was in, local police said.In Amsterdam, several people were injured as dozens of trees were toppled by the storm, damaging cars and houseboats along the city’s canals.The storm, named Poly, is the Netherlands’ worst ever during the summer months and its strongest overall since January 2018.Heavy storms in the Netherlands usually occur between October and April. The last heavy summer storm was in 2015 and was the first in over a century.
