Issued: 0530hrs Friday 11th February 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Windy north Europe while largely dry centrally.

Friday
Cloud and a few showers affecting northern Spain on Friday. Much of central and southern Spain as well as Portugal will be dry with lots of sunshine. Staying sunny across the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy seeing lots of sunshine, although there will be a few showers in the north-west here. Greece will have a dry day with more sunshine and Turkey will be fine as well with lots of sunshine here.
Plenty of sunshine to come across central and northern France, although a windy south with cloud and a few showers. Fine too in the Low Countries and northern Germany as well as northern Poland, although periods of rain in southern Germany and southern Poland. The risk of some rain, sleet and snow across Hungary, Austria and Switzerland. Very windy in Switzerland.
Breezy in Denmark with sunny spells in scattered showers. Some sleet and snow driving into the Baltic states and snow showers for Finland. Sweden should be dry and breezy. Frequent, heavy snow showers affecting western and northern Norway where it will be cold for all.

Saturday
Mostly dry and fine across Spain and Portugal though with a few scattered showers about, these perhaps more affecting Ibiza and Majorica. The odd shower through Sardinia and Corsica as well as some scattered showers across southern Italy, but largely dry elsewhere here. Showers through Greece but mainly dry across Turkey.
Dry across much of central Europe thanks to high pressure. Winds will increase later across the Low Countries as well as northwest Germany and Poland.
Mild and dry though cloudy and windy across Denmark and the Baltic States. Largely dry through Norway and Sweden but some rain, sleet and snow reaching southern regions here. Windy across the far south. Mainly dry through Finland.