Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 6th February 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Cold northern Europe, milder in the south with rain in central areas

Tuesday
Sunny again through Portugal and Spain, dry too. Lots of sunshine for central parts of the Mediterranean. Italy, Greece and Turkey will all be dry with more sunshine.
Fair for France and dry too with sunny spells. Windy in northern France and a risk of some cloud and drizzle here. Breezy and fairly cloudy in the Low Countries. Rain for northern Germany and northern Poland, Windy central and southern Poland and Germany. Fair for Hungary, Austria and Switzerland with plenty of sunshine.
Rain for Denmark, windy too. Cloudy in the Baltic States, mostly dry. Fair for Finland and cold here. Another cold day in Sweden, some sunshine in the south. A few snow showers in the south of Norway. Mostly dry for the rest of Norway and cold.

Wednesday
Outbreaks iof rain in northwest Spain today. Fair for other areas with some good spells of sunshine. More sunshine and dry weather to come through the Balearics as well as Corsica, Sardinia and most of Italy. However, a few showers may affect northern Italy. Greece and Turkey should be dry and bright with good spells of sunshine although a low risk of a shower over western and southern coasts of Turkey.
An unsettled day in France. Breezy with periods of rain, some of them heavy for many areas, perhaps drier in the far south. Cooler for the Low Countries and northern Germany, dry here. Cool with a few showers in northern Poland. Cloud and rain in southern Poland as well as southern Germany. Hungary, Austria and Switzerland will ne dry and bright.
Cooler and brighter in Denmark, some showers in the west. Cold for the Baltic States. Dry and cold for Finland as well as most of Sweden. Norway will have frequent and sometimes heavy snow showers, especially in the north and west.