Issued: 0530hrs Monday 23rd December 2024 Duty forecaster: Dan Graves
Unsettled for several days in eastern Mediterranean. Mostly cloudy elsewhere, patches of rain and snow east.
Monday Cloud and some patchy rain for northern Spain. Fair with lots of sun for the rest of Spain and Portugal. Rain too affecting the Balearics, sun and showers alternating. Low pressure bringing rain to Italy, heavy and thundery in the south with gales. Further heavy, thundery rain along the Adriatic coasts and for Greece as well as southern and western Turkey. Inland Balkan counties will see snow, some heavy, through the day. Eastward toward Romania and Bulgaria drier. Some rain in northwest France with further rain and snow showers in eastern France. Fair for the rest of the country. Breezy and showery in the Low Countries. Frequent showers and some snow in Germany, feeling cold. Further showers in western Poland but fair in the east. Hungary and its north and east neighbors should be mostly fair with isolated showers/snow. Snow, some heavy, affecting Austria and Switzerland. Bright in Denmark with sunny spells, though gales along the west coast down to Germany. Some showers in southern Sweden. Rain, sleet and some snow in the Baltic States and southern Finland. Broken cloud in Norway but mostly dry.
Tuesday North Spain will see some drizzle, but elsewhere over the Iberia will be mostly dry and sunny. Mostly sunny across the Mediterranean towards Italy, though rain and risk of gales over the Balearics. Lingering low pressure maintains showers in southern Italy and Greece. Heavy showers, some thundery, along the Turkish coasts and inland in the southeast. Mostly dry though cloudy in France, the Low Countries, and Germany. Better chance for sun in the south near Switzerland and northern Italy. Occasional snow showers linger further east in Czechia, Austria, southern Hungary, and west Ukraine. Snow continues inland in the Balkans, rain moving into Bulgaria and Romania. Persistent rain along Norway's coasts, snow inland. Rain will cross Denmark into southwest Sweden. Finland stays dry and cloudy. Some rain and snow showers in the Baltic states, glimpses of sun possible south towards Poland and Belarus.
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