Issued: 0530hrs Friday 28th January 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

High winds for north Europe. Unsettled with heavy rain and winds across the Aegean.

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.

Saturday
A dry day for Spain and mainly dry across Portugal though a few showers developing in the far south later. Italy and the islands will remain dry with sunshine. Unsettled weather continues across southern Greece and the Greek islands into western and southern regions of Turkey.
Dry with mist and fog expected across France again. Windy through the Low Countries, Germany and Austria as rain clears from the north with blustery showers about. Rain pushing across Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary with high winds here too.
Cold across Scandinavia with outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow. High winds across southern regions of Norway, Sweden and Finland, less windy further north. Drifting snow and high winds expected across the Baltic States. Gales also across Denmark with some showers about but mainly dry.