Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 24 February 2024
Duty forecaster: John

Low pressure Iceland to Spain to Baltic to Poland makes for unsettled spell

Saturday
An area of prolonged rain across the British Isles, with rain developing and then moving eastwards from Britianny, across northern and into central France through the morning will then move into Denmark, Denmark,Belgium, Netherlands across Germany to Poland through the afternoon and into the evening, and later across Switzerland and Austria. Temperatures 6-8C with a fresh west to southwest wind. Showers will follow in from the northwest through the later morning into the afternoon. Snow showers will be frequent for souther Sweden and Norway through the morning and later into Belarius and EstoniaItaly and Greece dry though mainly cloudy with scattered showers, temperatures 12 to 15C.

Sunday
Continuing unsettled and often stormy for much of western and central with rain prolonged and heavy at times across France through to Netherland and Belgium to Denmark and into the Baltic Rain and cloud for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Switzerland temperatures 6 to 8C and a fresh west to northwest wind. Southern France, Spain and Portugal mainly dry with sunny spells temperatures 10 to 12C. Italy to Serbia across to Greece sunshine and scattered mainly coastal showers