Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 27th January 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Chilly and windy across northeast Europe. Dry further west.

Thursday
A fair day for most on Thursday across Spain and Portugal. Fair too in the Balearics and across Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will be dry too with more sunshine here. Greece will be dry and sunny with Turkey enjoying mostly fair conditions as well.
Some cloud and showery rain in the far north of France. Dry for most areas with sunny spells. Cold in the Netherlands with sunshine and scattered showers. Windy with frequent showers, some wintry across much of Germany moving south. Further cloud and rain in Hungary moving down into Austria and Switzerland later.
Windy and cold through Denmark, a few showers here. Sleet, snow and wind in the Baltic States. Snow for eastern and southern Finland, drier to the north. Norway will have frequent and heavy snow showers in the west and north.

Friday
Another dry and fine day for Spain and Portugal as well as the Balearics. Outbreaks of rain push down central into southern parts of Italy as well as the Balkan States. Dry and fair through Greece and Turkey.
A dry day for France with some mist and fog patches about. Breezy across the Netherlands but dry. Less windy for Germany today with just one or two showers in the south here. Still windy across Poland with some patchy rain in the south. Outbreaks of rain easing across Switzerland and Austria.
Rain moving in to southern Norway later with gales expected here. Largely dry and fair through Sweden. Dry though cool through Finland and the Baltic States. Winds strengthening across Denmark but staying dry.