Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 20th March 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Drizzle and patchy rain in western Europe, fair in central areas

Wednesday
Rain in the far northwest of Spain. Fair for other areas with sunny spells and dry weather. Italy will be dry with more sunshine. Greece is likely to be dry too although a few showers in the south. Heavier showers across Turkey, some thundery west and south.
Showers in the west of France but fine in the east. Cloudy in the Netherlands with a few spots of rain over northern coasts. Germany will be dry and fair with good spells of sunshine. More sunshine in Poland. Hungary should be dry and bright with more sunshine. Remaining fair in Austria and Switzerland.
Cloud and a few spots of rain in Denmark. The Baltic States will be dry with sunny spells. Finland is dry and bright too with more sunshine. Some rain for eastern parts of Sweden but dry and bright west and norther. Norway should be mostly dry although some rain in the far north.

Thursday
Some showers and rain in southern Spain and southern Portugal on Thursday. Northern Portugal, central and northern Spain mare likely to be drier and brighter. Fair in the Balearics and Italy with lots of sunshine and dry weather. Greece is sunny and dry again as well as western Turkey but some showers in the east.
France starts misty but this clears to dry weather and sunshine. More sunsshine to come in the Low Countries and northern Germany although some rain in central Germany, most of it patchy. Cloudy in patchy rain in northern Poland, fair for most of the country. Hungary will be dry and sunny, some outbreaks of rain afecting Austria and Switzerland.
Denmark will have broken cloud and drier weather. The Baltic States will be cloudy and drizzle as will be Finland. Sweden will be damp in the east but fair for other areas with sunny spells. Winds and rain in western Norway but dry with broken cloud in other areas.