Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 23rd December 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair in Mediterranean, cloud and rain to the north


Wednesday
Fair with sunny spells in Spain and Portugal. Staying fine through the Balearics as well as most of Italy. Greece and Turkey will both be dry too with more spells of sunshine to come here.
A few showers in southern France, with some cloud and drizzle extending through eastern France, Switzerland and southern Germany. Northern France and the Low Countries should be dry with sunny spells. Staying dry with more sunny spells in northern Germany and Poland.
Winds with some drizzle in western Denmark, dry with some sunshine in the east. Windy with some drizzle in the Baltic States, and staying cloudy, damp and mild for Finland too. Wet and windy in western Norway.

Christmas Eve
Cloud and some rain in the far northwest of Spain today. Generally fair over the rest of Spain and Portugal. Fair for the Balearics with further spells of sunshine. Italy is going to be dry too with further spells of sunshine. Remaining dry in Greece and Turkey and mostly sunny too.
Mostly dry over central and southern France today. Cloud and outbreaks of rain in northern and western France and strong winds here. Windy with rain arriving in the Low Countries. Mostly dry for Germany and breezy too, staying dry in Poland. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland will be dry with sunny spells and mild too.
Windy with cloud and outbreaks of rain in Denmark. Breezy and mostly fair for the Baltic States and Finland. Windy in Sweden, broken cloud here. Windy for Norway with rain in the south, but snow to the north.