Issued: 0530hrs Monday 5th January 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Cold central and northern Europe with snow and severe frost.

Monday
Rain across southeastern areas of Spain, flooding is possible here. Further showers or rain in northern Spain later. Other areas will be dry with sunny spells and feeling cold. Heavy periods of rain through the Balearics. Showers in Corsica and Sardinia. Heavy frequent showers in central and southern Italy, drier north but little sun. Widespread heavy rain across the Balkans, snow in the north. Heavy rain in western areas of Greece, fair in the east with only local patches. Scattered showers for western Turkey, fair for other areas with sunny spells.
France has some sleety outbreaks in the north, cold and dry with sun in the south. Wintry showers across the Low Countries and northern Germany. Southern Germany, Czechia and much of Poland will be fair and cold with sunny spells; some wintry showers in the north of Poland. Sunny and dry Switzerland. Snow pushes into Hungary and east Austria, increasingly into Slovakia.
Widely cold across Scandinavia. Snow showers in Denmark, these extending to the Baltic States and southern Sweden. Cold and dry in the rest of Sweden and Finland. Snow showers for northern Norway, dry in the south; a few of the showers may drift into northern Sweden.

Tuesday
Patchy rain in southeast and northern Spain, the rest of Iberia fine with sunny spells. Further showery spells for the Balearics, Sardinia, and Corsica. Often raining in central Italy, drier with sun spells north. Widely snowy in the northern Balkan States, heavy rain in the southern Balkans. Frequent heavy rain in west Greece, patchy showers further east and into western Türkiye.
Some snow in southern and northern parts of France, elsewhere fine with sunny spells. Further snow showers into the Netherlands and northern Germany, drier further south with a mix of cloud and bright spells. Dry in Switzerland and Austria with mixed cloud and sun. Very cold and dry in Czechia and Poland. Another wave of snow into Hungary, Slovakia, and western parts of Romania and Ukraine.
Further snow in Denmark and southern Sweden, rare showers drifting into southeast Norway. Some snow into the eastern Baltic States as well but many areas dry here. Scattered snow showers in the far north of Scandinavia, but most areas dry, cold, and mostly cloudy.