Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 17th February 2021
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine and warm Mediterranean, colder Scandinavia and eastern Europe

Tuesday
Rain in northern Portugal and northwest Spain on Wednesday. Fair for the rest of POrtugal and Spain. The Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia are going to be fair too with lots of sunshine. Staying fair across Italy and bright here as well. Greece and Turkey will be fair, but will be feeling cool. Some heavy showers for Cyprus.
Some rain in northwest France. Elsewhere it should be fair with lots of sunshine. Breezy and cloudy with some outbreaks of rain in the Low Countries. Breezy in northwest Germany but fair for most. Rain in Poland and cloudy too. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be fair, although some morning fog patches are likely.
Cloud and outbreaks of rai in Denmark. The Baltic States will be cold but dry. Staying cold in Finland and much of central and northern Sweden. Breezy for Norway with snow in the southwest, fair to the north.

Wednesday
Some rain in central Portugal and Spain on Thursday. Fair for the north of Portugal and northwest Spain. Fair too in the east and south of Spain. Warm and sunny through the Balearics and across Corsica and Sardinia. Italy remains warm to with plenty of sunshine here and these conditions continue into Greece. Turkey should be mostly fair although there will be some snow affecting northern coasts.
Heavy rain central parts of France maybe heavy although brighter weather with some showers follows into the west. Cloudy with further rain across the low countries and the far west of Germany. Eastern parts of Germany and Poland will be dry but cool. Dry and cold across Hungary and Austria, brighter in Switzerland.
Windy in Denmark with some rain later. Staying windy across southern Sweden. Cold for the Baltic states but dry with some sunshine. Remaining dry and cold in Finland. Northern parts of Sweden will also be staying cold but dry. Some rain and strong winds in south-western Norway, but dry in the north.