Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 19th February 2022
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Gusty, high winds and heavy rain through north Europe.

Saturday
Outbreaks of rain push across east Spain, heavy in places. Drier further west and across Portugal. Soem showery rain will too affect the Balearics. Dry for much of Italy and the islands though some rain pushes into the far north region. Dry and fine across Greece and Turkey.
Staying windy across north France with patchy rain moving into the north and west later. Staying windy across Belgium and the Netherlands and becoming increasingly wet. Windy still for Germany with any rain clearing. Windy for Poland with some patchy rain in the north. Rain pushing across Austria, clearing from the north. An improving day for Switzerland.
Winds easing across Denmark with largely dry conditions here. Snow showers through Norway but mostly dry across Sweden. Patchy rain, sleet and snow across north Finland and clearing from the west in south Finland. Very windy with gales through the Baltic States along with sleet and snow pushing through here.

Sunday
Largely dry and fine across Spain and the Balearics. A few scattered showers in Italy but mainly dry including the islands. Outbreaks of rain pushing south down the Balkans moving in to Bulgaria later. Mostly dry through Greece and Turkey.
Very windy across northern into central regions of Europe. Heavy rain will push in to far northern areas of France, right across the Netherlands and through northern parts of Germany. Elsewhere should remain largely dry. Largely dry and fine with less wind through the Alpine countries, though increasingly windy over higher ground here.
Strengthening winds and heavy rain pushing across Denmark. Largely dry though with a fair amount of cloud across Norway and Sweden, hwoever, the southern tip of Norway will see heavy rain later. Patchy lighter rain affecting central parts of Finland. Rain clearing from the west across the Baltics.