Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 22nd January 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Showers and rain in Italy and Greece, fair in much of central Europe
Thursday
Cool and showery for Spain and Portugal on Thursday, most persistent toward northern areas, some snow again. Very unsettled in the western and central Mediterranean, with clusters of slow moving thundery downpours affecting the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and southern Italy.
Brighter and drier for Greece, whilst there should be plenty of warm sunshine for Turkey and Cyprus. Cloudy, cool and patchy rain for France. Occasional light snow for Switzerland and Austria. Essentially dry but chilly across Germany and the Low Countries.
Cool with a little drizzle or light snow for Poland and the Czech Republic. Dry and very cold again for much of Scandinavia, although there will be patchy snow in southern regions of Norway and Sweden again.
Friday
Cloud and some showery outbreaks of rain in Portugal. Spain should be fair with sunny spells. Showers in the Balearics, with low pressure over southern Italy bringing some unsettled weather with showers here. Heavy showers affecting Greece, with some rain in western Turkey, but dry to the east.
Fair and cool in France, but some fog in the west. Fair and cool through the Low Countries and most of Germany. Some sunny spells across Portugal too. Breezy for Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland.
Fair with good spells of sunshine in Denmark. Fair for the Baltic States and a few showers in Finland. Cloud and some rain in western Norway, but fair in the east.