Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Rain central Mediterranean, drier in eastern Europe


Wednesday
Fair Spain and Portugal. There will be plenty of sunshine and it will be feeling warm. Showers in the Balearics. Heavier rain, some of it thundery in Corsica and Sardinia as well as Italy. Greece will be fair in the east, but rain in the far west. Fair for Turkey with sunny spells, but some rain in the south.
Scattered showers in France but some bright spells too. Scattered showers to for the Low Countries. Fair for Poland and Germany with sunny spells. Austria and Hungary will be dry with sunny spells. Remaining far for Switzerland as well.
Fine for Sweden and the Baltic States, mild too. Finland will be dry overall with sunny spells. Norway is likely to be cloudier with some showery bursts of rain, windy here as well.

Thursday
Rain in northern Spain and turning colder here. Fair for the rest of Spain and Portugal. A fine day to come through the Balearic Islands, but some showers in Corsica and Sardinia. Heavy rain affects southern Italy whilst the north stays dry. Greece will be largely dry with some sunny spells although there will be some rain in the southern Peloponnese. Turkey is going to be largely dry too although rain afecting southern coasts.
Blustery rain in much of northern and western France, some of this heavy. Eastern and southern areas will see a few showers. A band of showery rain passes through the Low Countries into western parts of Germany, but the rest of Germany should be dry. Showers in western Poland but dry in the east. Rain for Hungary and southern Austria, dry in Switzerland.
Breezy for Denmark but mostly dry. Breezy through Swede, again dry here. A windy day in the Baltic States and Finland and staying dry. Breezy with further period sof rain affecting much of Norway as well as Denmark.