Issued: 0530hrs Friday 15th March 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Changeable for most, rain in central areas, snow in Scandinavia

Friday
A few showers over Central parts of Portugal on Friday, but the rest of the country should be dry. Spain will be dry with plenty of sunshine and warm weather too. A few showers in Majorca and Ibiza, as well as Corsica and Sardinia. Those showers also affecting northern Italy, but the rest of the country will be dry. Greece should be dry and sunny with some showers in Turkey.
An unsettled day across France, where it will be windy and wet. Rain could be heavy, and this will be affecting the Low Countries and much of Germany as well. It will be a wet day in Switzerland as well as western Austria. Poland, Hungary and eastern Austria should be dry with sunny spells.
A mix of sunny spells and showers across Denmark. Windy but dry in the Baltic states. Rather cloudy and damp in much of Finland. Sweden will be breezy and wet in the south, some snow in central areas. Norway will have rain and sleet in the south, although snow inland, whilst the northern half of Norway will be very cold with a mix of sunny spells and snow showers.

Saturday
Some rain in the far north-west of Spain for Saturday. The rest of Portugal and Spain will be dry with plenty of sunshine. Heavy showers across much of central and southern Italy, whilst the north should be dry and brighter. Greece and Turkey are likely to be mostly dry with some sunny spells, although a few showers may affect Crete.
Rain also affecting the far north west of France. The rest of France should be dry with good spells of sunshine. A better day for the Netherlands, the weather will be sunny spells and dry weather. Fair in the western half of Germany, although rain in the east extending through Poland. Some showers for Hungary and Austria, but mostly dry in Switzerland.
Breezy and bright in Denmark with sunny spells and feeling cold. Wet in the Baltic states, and in Finland, although some heavy snow affecting northern parts of Finland. More snow in central Sweden, but Norway will be cold with sunny spells, and some snow showers, most of them in the north.