Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 23rd December 2020
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Cool with rain and showers to north, drier and milder to south


Wednesday
Rain in Portugal as well as northwest Spain today. Fine for the rest of Spain with good spells of sunshine. Staying fair across the Balearics and Italy with more sunshine here. Fine too in Greece and Turkey with plenty of sunshine.
France will be windy in the north with outbreaks of rain and showers. To the south it will be drier with soms sunny spells. Heavy rain across the Low Countries and much of central and northern Germany. Poland will be far in the north but with rain to the south. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland will be dry, plenty of sunshine to come here.
A mainly fair day in Denmark. Staying dry across southern Sweden and the Baltic States. Wind and some showers in Finland as well as northern Sweden. Norway will have showers on the coasts with more persistent rain in the north.

Christmas Eve
Showers in northern Spain. A few affecting Portugal too. Drier in central and eastern Spain. Fair through the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia. Italy should be dry overall with some sunny spells. Greece and Turkey will be dry too with more sunshine here.
Unsettled in much of central Europe. Rain across western and northern France, this heavy at times. Further ain through the Low Countries as well as in northern Germany and northern Poland. Heavy showers for southern Poland, these affecting Hungary and Austria too. Mostly dry for Switzerland with some sunny spells.
Cold for Denmark with a risk of some sleet and snow to the south. Mainly fair in the Baltic States. Chilly with a few snow showers in Finland. Maily dry in Sweden. Snow showers affeting the coasts of Norway, but fair inland.