Issued: 0530hrs Monday 9th December 2024
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Drier for southern Scandinavia

Monday
Persistent rain and chilly northerly winds in northern Spain. Fair for many central and southern areas of Spain and Portugal. Some rain in east Spain and heavy showery bursts through the Balearics and across Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will have heavy showers in the west although drier in the east. Greece sees heavy, thundery showers, but drier over eastern coasts. Heavy showers too in western and southern Turkey.
Windy and cold in France. Frequent showers, most along northern coasts and through southern areas. Further showers and windy, chilly weather in the Low Countries. Windy with heavy showers for Germany and Poland. More heavy showers or longer periods of rain in Hungary, Austria and Switzerland.
Windy in Denmark, some showers in the east. Fair in most of the Baltic States, Finland will have some morning fog which will clear. Sweden and most of southern Norway will be dry with sunny spells. Windier in central and northern Norway, heavy rain here too.

Tuesday
Showery rain frequent in northern Spain and a few showers may affect Portugal, but central and southern Spain stay dry with some sun. Slow-moving thundery showers for the western Mediterranean, affecting the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia plus southwest Italy and Sicily. Drier in northern Italy. Rain also for western Greece and the Adriatic coastline.
Chilly easterly winds prevail through central Europe. Fairly cloudy, but dry for most of France. Light showers possible for the Low Countries and parts of Germany. Areas of rain and hill snow for Czechia and southern Poland.
Fair weather for southern Scandinavia with sunshine for Denmark, southern Sweden and Norway plus the Baltic states. Also fine but cold in northern Poland. Windier for northern Scandinavia, with frequent wintry showers for northern Norway, but mainly dry for Finland.