Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Heavy showers affecting Spain and France.

Wednesday
Showers and longer periods of rain affecting northern Spain on Wednesday. Fair for the rest of Spain and Portugal with some good spells of sunshine. Chilly in the Balearics with isolated showers. Italy should be fair and dry with more sunshine here. Greece and Turkey also dry and sunny throughout.
Heavy showers affecting France, turning drier in the north later. Feeling cooler for all. The Low Countries will have occasional showers. Germany and Poland should be dry with plenty of sunshine. Dry and sunny in Hungary and Austria, some showers or rain in Switzerland.
Denmark will be bright and dry. Sunny for much of southern Sweden as well as the Baltic States and Finland. Northern Sweden will have more cloud and a risk of some spots of rain. Wetter too in western and northern Norway with some snow in the north.

Thursday
Unsettled still through the northern half of Spain and Portugal with heavy showers as well as longer spells of rain about and blustery winds. Feeling cooler. Drier further south though mostly cloudy. Cloudier across the Balearics but mainly dry. A few scattered showers through southern Italy though many will be dry with sunny spells. The odd isolated shower or two through Greece and Turkey but most will be dry here.
Heavy showers affecting much of south and west France again today. A cool day here. The Low Countries see any showers largely fizzle out as higher pressure ridges across. Showery rain clears to the east in Germany too. Rain moves in to western Poland, staying dry further east. Scattered showers across Austria and Switzerland.
Rain initially across Denmark will clear to dry and mainly fine day here. Rain clears eastern Sweden and pushes in and across the Baltics with strengthened winds here. Rain and snow move in across north and west Norway, drier further east.