Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 26th December 2024
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Central Europe mostly sunny and calm. Beginning to settle in the eastern Mediterranean Friday.

Boxing Day Thursday
Mostly sunny with cloud patches in northern Spain, fine in Portugal. Scattered clouds and breezy east into the Mediterranean with showers east of Sardinia and Corsica. Italy mostly sunny with showers south. Thundery showers continuing in southern Greece and Türkiye, gale force gusts possible in the Aegean. Quite cloudy inland.
High pressure spreads sun across most of France and central Germany giving central Europe a fine day. Sun extends east across the Alps towards Slovakia, Hungary, northern Croatia, and northern Romania. Clouds south of here with patchy snow and showers in Bulgaria and north Greece. Mostly cloudy with light showers in the far east.
Clouds persist along the shores of the North and Baltic Seas, isolated showers on western coasts. Mostly overcast with bright spells in the Baltics, winds gradually easing through the day. Persistent snow showers on Norway's west coast, quite windy further north. Sun in and out for Sweden and Finland, more consistently sunny north, though remaining breezy.

Friday
Patchy morning clouds give way to abundant sunshine in Iberia and western Mediterranean. Lingering showers in Italy soon clearing for sunshine as well. Showers and breeze continue in the eastern Mediterranean, though beginning to ease. Becoming sunny on the Adriatic Sea and inland in the north.
A fine, sunny day for France. Clouds begin encroaching Germany and Poland, some reaching further south towards Switzerland, mostly dry. Still quite sunny around Czechia, Hungary, and Croatia. Clouds and snow into Romania and Bulgaria, remaining dry and cloudy further north. Winds quite calm over much of the continent.
Frequent showers continue on the west coasts of Scotland and Norway. Some isolated drizzly showers into Denmark and Sweden and winds rather calm in the south. Similar conditions in the Baltics. Finland brighter but breezier.