Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 30th November 2016
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair central Mediterranean, becoming cold and windy Scandinavia


Wednesday
Showers affecting eastern Spain on Wednesday. More persistent rain in southwest Portugal. Drier elsewhere in Iberia with some bright or sunny spells. Fair in the Balearics and Italy with lots of sunshine and dry weather here. Cloud and rain in southern and eastern Greece. Chilly with wintry showers across northern Turkey, drier and brighter to the south. Wet acros Israel with some heavy periods of rain here.
A fair amount of fog over France, this slowly lifting to leave sunny spells. Fair for the Low Countries with a brisk breeze. Scattered showers over northern Germany and breezy here. Staying breezy in Poland with showers in the north but drier to the south. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland should be dry.
Windy in Denmark with showers here. Sunny spells and cooler in the Baltic States. Scattered snow showers across Finland and chilly here. Bright in Sweden with sunny spells in the south, heavy snow showers in the north. Norway sees wintry showers, these heavy in the north.

Thursday
Rain in southern parts of Spain today as wel as the far south of Portugal. Central and northern Iberia will be dry with sunny spells. Scattered showers in the Balearics. Fine for Corsica and Sardinia as well as Italy. More sunshine for Greece and the far west of Turkey, but rain in eastern Turkey with snow inland.
Fair for France with lots of sunshine and dry too, perhaps with a few fog patches in the north in the morning. Windy and cold across the Low Countries and Germany, snow showers over northern and eastern Germany as well as Poland. Chilly for Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland with sunny spells.
A windy and cold day for Denmark with snow showers here. Rain, sleet and snow in the Baltic States. Heavy snow showers in Finland whilst much of Sweden stays dry, windy and very cold. Norway has a significant wind chill with wintry showers and the chance of some heavy snow showers in the north.