Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 21st October 2025
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Heavy rain and gales in central and northern Europe, fewer showers in the south

Wednesday
Rain for northern Portugal and the north of Spain. Fair for central nd southern Iberia, good spells of sunshine and dry. Fair for the Balearics. Scattered showers in Corsica and Sardinia. heavier showers for Italy and Greece, a risk of thunderstorms. Further heavy showers in western Greece, fair in the east. Scattered showers west and south.
Wet and windy in France, heavy periods of rain in central and northern areas, drier in the far south. Mainly fair for the Low Countries. Rain southern and central Germany, dry in the north. Scattered showers in Poland. Hungary will be fair with sunny spells as will be Austria. Switzerland seeing heavy showers and thunderstorms.
Sunny spells and mostly dry inDenmark. The Baltic States will be dry with lots of sunshine too. Windy in Finland and dry too. Showers or periods of rain in Sweden, heavy at times. Further cloud and rain in Norway.

Thursday
Showers and heavy periods of rain in northwest Iberia. Fair for much of the rest of Iberia with sunny spells. Scattered showers in the Balearics. Further heavy showers and rain in Italy. Greece will be fair with sunny spells. Rain and heavy showers or thunderstorms in Turkey.
Windy and unsettled in France with rain and heavy showers. Severe gales and heavy, thundery rain in the Low Countries. Further showers and rain for Germany and much of western Poland. Heavy rain too across Hungary and Austria with further heavy thunderstorms for Switzerland.
Gales and heavy rain affecting Denmark too. Periods of rain for the Baltic States and Finland. Sunshine and showers in Sweden. Further sunny spells and scattered showers for Norway.