Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 16th April 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Much of the continent, including Scandinavia, will be sunny with only a few isolated showers.

Thursday
Sunshine in Portugal and Spain and the Balearics. Fair for Corsica and Sardinia, some afternoon shower. Sunshine and afternoon shower too in Italy, driest to the north. Scattered showers for the Balkans and western Greece, more cloud around in southern areas. Türkiye will have a few scattered showers but mostly dry and sunny.
Sunny spells for much of France but some showers developing in the north and east. Scattered showers early in the Low Countries, trending drier. Rain in central Germany, most of it light. Scattered showers for Switzerland and Austria, a few showers in Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary too, but sunny spells for all these areas. Mixed cloud and sun for Poland, some showers in the north. Some afternoon showers in the mountains of Romania and Bulgaria.
Cloud and some patchy rain for the far southwest of Norway and Denmark. Scattered showers in the Baltic States too. Fair for Finland, some cloud in the south, and similar conditions for Sweden. Northern Norway will be often sunny.

Friday
More sun for Iberia, some patchy cloud in the northwest, and also fine again in the Balearics. Local showery outbreaks in Sardinia and Corsica, as well as Italy and the Balkan States, but most areas dry and largely sunny. Heavy showers in Crete and Türkiye, as well as Cyprus, only scattered showers for the rest of the Aegean and Greece.
Scattered showers in northern France but otherwise fine and often sunny here. Dry with sunny spells for the Low Countries. A few light showers in central Hungary and Czechia, but mostly sunny otherwise. Often sunny for Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary, as well as the Alpine countries. Showers in Belarus and Romania, more scattered in Ukraine. Bulgaria will be dry and sunny.
Showers in eastern Lithuania and Latvia, but a general sunnier trend in the Baltic States. Fine with plenty of sunshine for Finland and Sweden. Mostly dry in Norway but more cloud in southern parts (as well as in Denmark), some patchy rain along the southwest coast later.