Issued: 0530hrs Monday 25th November 2024
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Rain sweeps across the Continent.

Monday
Heavy rain in the morning for Portugal but soon turning dry and sunny. Spain will see a similar pattern with rain clearing east midday. Over France, the Low Countries, Northeast Germany, and Denmark, expect a band of heavy rain to spread east throughout the day. Winds will be stronger around this band of rain. Windy for northern parts of the British Isles along with showers, drier further south. Poland will see a dry and bright day. Some rain is expected for southern Norway and Sweden. Cloudy with outbreaks of rain for Finland. The Baltic states will be largely dry though mostly cloudy, whereas Belarus and Ukraine will be mostly sunny.
A dry bright start for Switzerland but heavy rain arrives overnight with snow on the mountains. Austria and the other Central European countries will see a dry day, potentially quite sunny, but increasingly cloudy from the west. Romania and the Balkans will see a crisp sunny day.
Dry but rather cloudy for the Balearics. Sunny over Sardinia and Corsica. Some showers for Italy while Greece will experience a crisp sunny day. Some snow for eastern Turkey, a few showers for Cyprus.

Tuesday
A cloudy morning in Portugal and Spain will give way to intermittent sun in the west. The Balearics and Sardinia and Corsica will be mostly sunny, though the afternoon may bring some showers to western S&C. Italy will experience a similar situation. Slovenia and coastal Croatia will experience persistent rain throughout the day, with occasional heavy pockets. The remainder of the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey will enjoy a mostly calm mostly sunny day.
A band of rain along the English Channel will migrate along the north coast bringing rain to Netherlands and Belgium midday and scattered showers to northern Germany in the afternoon. In the later afternoon, another push of heavy rain will arrive in northwest France and southwest England bringing heavy rains eastward through the night. Several bands of rain will impact the northern UK and western Norway and Denmark. Particularly strong westerly winds will impact Denmark's west coast in the afternoon. Snow clears away from the central Europe Alps in the morning though clouds will linger throughout the day. A thin band of rain will stretch from Austria through Poland and the Baltics, bringing a wave of midday rain. A possibility of sun behind this rain band for east Germany and west Poland.
Scandinavia likely to experience extensive cloud throughout the day, though brighter spells may fall along southern Sweden. Expect rain and snow along west coasts.