Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 18th December 2025
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Strong winds blow across northern Europe; often wet here, some rain drifting across west/southwestern countries as well.

Thursday
Fair for Portugal and Spain with good spells of sunshine, through heavy rain arrives into northwestern areas late in the day. Rain and cloud in eastern areas of Spain. Some scattered showers over the Balearics and Corsica though often dry and sunny. Scattered showers too in Italy, mostly north and west, but often dry. Mixed cloud and sun for the Balkan States. Greece and Turkey should be dry with decent spells of sunshine to come here.
France will be mostly dry with broken cloud, just an odd shower to the south, windy in the west and increasingly wet northwest. Early rain in the Low Countries and northwest Germany tends to east, some sun breaking out. Poland and Hungary should be dry with good spells of sunshine. Austria and Switzerland are mostly dry, just an occasional showers in the south. A few showers too in Slovakia and Romania but many dry with sun spells.
Widely windy across northern Europe. Extensive rain and snow in central and south Norway in the morning soon slips east into Denmark and Sweden, snow spreading widely in northern areas and into Finland. South and east Finland stay dry though cloudy, similar conditions in the Baltic States too.

Friday
A band of heavy rain sweeps across Portugal and west Spain, rain more scattered east Spain. Scattered showers for the Balearics, Sardinia, and Corsica. Showers in northwest Italy too, brighter south. A few showers for coastal Croatia, otherwise the Balkan States dry and bright. Greece and Türkiye also sunny most of the day.
Rain sweeps across west and central France, scattered showers in the far southeast. This rain extends into the Low Countries and northern Germany, tending to ease as the day goes. Often bright/sunny in southern Germany and the Alpine countries. Some cloud and patchy rain in Slovakia and Hungary, more often sunny towards the Black Sea. Poland will be often sunny as well.
A keen southwesterly wind blows across Denmark and southern parts of Norway and Sweden. Early rain in Denmark and Sweden passes into Finland. Some snow will linger across northern Scandinavia into nighttime. Rain/snow showers into southwest Norway. Drier in the Baltics with sunny spells, though some rain into Estonia later in the day.