Issued: 0530hrs Monday 6th January 2025
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Cold northwest, milder south and east

Monday
Low pressure centred over the North Sea dominates the weather pattern for much of Europe. Showers for Spain and Portugal on Monday. Increasingly showery into afternoon for Majorca, Ibiza and Menorca. Corsica and Sardinia should be dry. A few showers in the north of Italy, but generally fine with good spells of sunshine. Greece and Turkey are both dry with plenty of sunshine.
Windy and unsettled in France. Some heavy showers across southern and western France with rain and sleet in the north. Strong winds and frequently wet across Belgium, Holland and northern Germany. Southeastern parts of Germany and Poland will be windy, but mostly dry. Hungary and Austria are dry with sunny spells. Cloud and rain plus mountain snow for Switzerland.
Windy with heavy rain Denmark, moving into southern Norway and Sweden with heavy snow developing here. Patchy rain and snow developing in the Baltic States too. Dry for Finland, northern Norway and Sweden.

Tuesday
Dry for southern Spain and Portugal, but rain moves into the far northwest of Iberia, and extends into western France with heavy rain setting in increasingly here. The Balearics should be dry, whilst Corsica, Sardinia and western Italy may see local showers. Some rain also in the west of Greece, but the Greek islands should be often dry. Scattered showers moving into western Turkey.
Windy across north-central Europe with frequent wintry showers for the Low Countries and Germany. Some heavy rain and mountain snow into Austria and Slovenia, possibly western Hungary. Dry and mild toward the Black Sea.
Low pressure over Scandinavia brings a very unsettled pattern with heavy snowfalls likely for southern Norway and Sweden. Gales across Denmark and the southern Baltic. Snow advancing northwards into Finland. The far north stays dry until later.