Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 23rd December 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Cold and windy through Scandinavia.

Thursday
Heavy rain in Portugal and western parts of Spain. The east of Spain will be dry with sunshine. Largely dry and fair through the central Mediterranean. Plenty of sunshine in Italy and across Greece and much of Turkey.
More sunshine in France and mild here, although more cloud in the west. Some bits of drizzle in the Low Countries and northern coasts of Germany, although most of the rest of Germany is dry with some bright spells. Poland will be mild and mostly dry. Hungary, Austria and Switzerland should be dry too with some sunshine here as well as mild.
Rain and cloud through Denmark. More cloud and outbreaks of rain in the far south of Norway. Wind and sleet in the Baltic States with further sleet for Finland. Some sleet in central Sweden, dry in the north. Rain for the far south of Norway but heavy snow showers affecting western and northern areas.

Friday
Some rain reaching a few eastern regions of Spain today but mostly dry here. West with rain across Portugal and parts of west Spain. Rather cloudy with some scattered showers for Italy though mostly dry for the surrounding islands. Mostly dry across Greece and Turkey.
A rather cloudy day across France with some patchy rain further west and further east, otherwise dry though breezy. Rain, sleet and snow for Austria and Switzerland. Mostly dry for the Low Countries but rain moving in from the south later. Rain in the north of Germany, drier elsewhere. Cloudy and wet with rain and sleet for Poland and Croatia.
Largely dry and windy across Norway, but still a continued stream of rain, sleet and snow further north here. A mainly dry Sweden. Some patchy rain across Finland and windy in the north. Rain, sleet and perhaps snow affecting the Baltic States at times. Cloudy with aome patchy rain for Denmark.