Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 19th February 2023
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Windy north. chilly Scandinavia

Sunday
Fair for Spain and Portugal with good spells of sunshine, a few showers in the south. Fair too in the Balearics. A few showers in western Italy, dry in the east. Greece and Turkey will dry and fair with plenty of sunshine.
France will have a fine day with plenty of sunshine. A few showers in the Low Countries, although sunshine in northern Germany and Poland. Rain in the south of Poland and southern Germany. Hungary and Austria will have cloud and some outbreaks of rain, broken cloud and a few showers in Switzerland.
Bright for Denmark with sunny spells. Breezy in the Baltic States with sleet and rain with similar weather in Finland. Sweden will be bright and dry with sunny spells. Some cloud and rain as well as strong winds in western Norway. Wintry showers in northern Norway.

Monday
Developing scattered thundery and heavy showers push northwards through Spain and Portugal, otherwise most will be dry and fine with sunshine. Dry and fine for the Balearics and across the central Mediterranean through Italy into Greece. Some showery rain for Turkey, snow over the higher ground here.
France will have a fine day with plenty of sunshine, though a few mist and fog patches could be about first thing. Breezy across the Low Countries and Germany though mainly dry here. A few blustery, fast moving showers across northern Germany. Wet and windy with periods of rain across northern regions of Poland. Dry though windy elsewhere. Dry with sunny spells across Austria, Switzerland and the Balkans.
Rain and high winds gradually ease through the day across Denmark though likely to remain cloudy. Wet and windy for the Baltics where it will feel cold. Snow for wester Norway with a strengthened wind still in the south. Windy still across southern Sweden, less so further north. Rain, sleet and snow pushing into the far south of Finland, largely dry elsewhere.