Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 16th December 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Cloud and rain to the north, fair to the south


Wednesday
Rain for western Portugal and Spain today. Dry and fair in much of the rest of eastern and southern Spain. Sunny in the Balearics and dry too. Fine and sunny for Italy, more sunshine to come here. Lots of sunshine to come in Greece, and it will be staying fair in Turkey. Sunny and dry for France, although there could be some morning fog. Cloudier skies in the Low Countries and southern Germany, but fair to the north. Showers or longer spells of rain for Poland.
Fair in Denmark with lots of sunshine here. Some wintry showers for Sweden and for the Baltic States. Snow showers too in Finland. Sunny spells and dry for much of Norway, but some snow showers in the far north.

Thursday
Rain in the far northwest of Spain on Thursday. Dry for the rest of Portugal and Spain with good spells of sunshine. More dry weather and sunshine in the Balearics, and fair through Italy too. Some showers in southern Greece later as well as across southern Turkey.
Some cloud and rain in western France, but mostly dry and sunny elsewhere over France. Dry weather for the Low Countries and Germany with more sunshine. Showery rain in eastern Poland, but fair to the west. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland will be dry with more spells of sunshine here.
Breezy in Denmark with broken cloud and only a few brighter spells. Cloud and some showery rain in the Baltic States. Patchy rain in Finland. Mostly fair for Sweden with some sunny spells here. Wet and windy in Norway.