Issued: 0530hrs Friday 11th December 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair and warm in southern Europe, cloud and rain to the north


Friday
Most of Spain and Portugal stays dry, but small risk of a shower in south-western areas. Fairly warm again. Sunshine for southern France and Italy. Risk of thundery rain developing for southern Greece. Scattered showers may advance toward Crete. The Alpine regions, Hungary and eastern Europe will be dry and bright, with a good amount of sunshine, although quite cool at 3 to 6C.
Mild in western Europe, around 14C in western France. Cloudy, windy and outbreaks of rain for northern France, the Low Countries, also northern Germany and Denmark. Unsettled too for southern Sweden and the Baltic States. Drier in northern Sweden and Finland, but further rain or snow affects western Norway.

Saturday
The risk of some heavy showers in southwest Spain and Portugal today. Mostly fair with sunny spells. More sunshine to come across the Balearics and through Italy too. More sunshine for Greece, cooler in Turkey with some showers in the north.
Sunny and dry over most of France, although there could be some morning fog patches at first. Coud and some rain in the Low Countries and Germany as well as parts of Germany and Poland. Austria and Hungary will be cloudy and damp. Drier in Switzerland with sunny spells here.
Breezy with sunny spells and mostly dry weather in Denmark. Scattered showers affecting the Baltic States. Cloud and rain turning to snow in Finland. Cold too for much of Sweden with snow showers in the north. Further snow showers in southern Norway, fair in the north.