Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 6th January 2024
Duty forecaster: John K

Anticyclone Scandanvia building to link with high mid-Altantic

Saturday
Low pressure centres north of Scotland and another over Belgium will give a cloudy day with a mix of showers and prolonged spells of rain with a mixture of snow near North Sea coasts and into Denmark, Germany to Poland. A deepening area of low pressure centered Bay of Genoa will give an unsettled day for Italy with heavy outbreak of rain for northern and central Italy and snow over the Alps into Switzerland. Scattered showers for Adriatic coasts to Greece and Turkey. Dry and generally sunny For France and Spain though with some prolonged showers affecting south of France and northeast Spain with a fresh northerly wind Norway and Sweden along with Finland remain cold and dry.

Sunday
Remaining very unsettled often stormy for eastern Mediterranean from Italy to Greece with showers or longer spells of often heavy rain. Heavy snow and blizzards across Switzerland, Austria to southeast France. Sunshine and showers for Belgium, Netherlands and northeast France. Mainly dry from Scandanavia to Scotland, remainder of France, Spain and Portugal.