Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 3rd March 2022
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus
High pressure resides over Scandinavia seeing a largely dry end of the week here
Thursday
Rain affecting most of Spain and Portugal, heavy and thundery in central and northern areas. Drier in the east with sunny spells. The Balearics will be dry and bright with sunny spells. Showers for Corsica and Sardinia. Most of Italy should be dry with sunny spells. Greece will be dry and sunny. More sunshine in western Turkey, but rain and snow in eastern areas.
Some rain in the far west of France. Fair in central and eastern France with sunshine here. The Low Countries should be dry with good spells of sunshine. Germany will be chilly and dry with more sunshine. Poland is cool too with more sunshine. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be dry with sunny spells.
Denmark will be cold with plenty of sunshine. The Baltic States will be dry and bright as well as chilly. Finland will be cool with some bright or sunny spells. Sweden stays dry with more sunshine and cool weather here. Sweden will be bright and dry, although snow affecting the far north where it will be cold.
Friday
Rain clearing to the east of Spain. Portugal staying mainly dry and fine. Showery rain affecting the Balearics as well as Sardinia and Corsica into parts of central Italy. Drier elsewhere here with only one or two showers across Sicily. Scattered showers across Greece into western Turkey. Drier further east here.
Cloudier skies with showery rain affecting west and south France. Dry, fine and chilly for the Low Countries and Germany. Dry but perhaps more cloud cover for Switzerland and Austria. Some patchy rain across southern regions of Poland. Drier further north here.
High pressure over Scandinavia gives a largely dry and fine day with light winds for most and good spells of sunshine about though it will be chilly. The very far north of Finland and Norway, however, will see some snow.