Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 21st April 2026
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Breezy central-northern Europe

Tuesday
Cloudy with an increasing risk of heavy showers and longer spells of rain across northwestern regions of Spain as well as north Portugal. Northeast Spain into southern areas of France will also see showers. Elsewhere across southern areas Spain and Portugal it will remain dry and fine and feel warm. Much of the rest of France will be dry with sunny spells though windy across northern regions.
Italy as well as Austria will remain largely unsettled with cloudy skies and heavy showers as well as longer spells rain for central Italy. A few showers for Switzerland. Showers easing across the northern Balkans though staying wet into southern regions including northern Greece and Bulgaria.
Dry but breezy for the Low Countries and northern Germany. Some showers affecting central and southern Germany, these mainly patchy and light. Dry across Poland with sunny spells. Remaining dry across the Baltics with plenty of sunshine though it will remain windy and therefore feel cold in the wind, particuraly across northern regions of Norway and Sweden.

Wednesday
A few scattered showers for Spain, but a largely dry and warm day with good amounts of sunshine. Local showers for southern France, the western Mediterranean islands and the spine of Italy, drier toward northern Italy. Heavy and thundery bursts of rain forming for Greece and Turkiye, but the eastern Mediterranean stays dry. Local heavy showers into Romania and Bulgaria too.
A little patchy rain for northwest France, but much of central to northern France will be dry but again breezy. Dry weather extends through the Low Countries, Germany, the Alps and central eastern Europe including Poland.
A northwesterly breeze brings showers to Norway and Finland, though Sweden and Denmark remain dry. Feeling cool around the Baltic but largely dry.