Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 20th November 2025
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Frequent heavy showers around the central Mediterranean with snow across the Alps and mountains in the east. Drier to the north and Iberia though cold.

Thursday
Frequent showers drifting onto north Spain, falling as sleet or snow on high ground. Some cloud further south but sunny for Portugal and southern Spain. Showers for the central Mediterranean islands, these extending into southern Italy. Drier north but cloudy with snow in the mountains. Showers along the Balkan coasts becoming increasingly heavy, particularly heavy in western Greece. Only odd showers in east Greece and Türkiye with plentiful sun; mild but strong winds through the Aegean into the Black Sea.
Patchy wintry precipitation drifts into France, the Low Countries, and Germany on a breeze from the North Sea. Broader areas of snow will affect east France, Switzerland and Austria. Some snow and rain into Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary. Patchy snow and rain in Poland though dry for many under cloud. Some scattered showers in southeast Europe but most dry with sunny spells.
Strong winds around the Baltic Sea. Snow in southern parts of Sweden and Finland, some snow drifting north into central Finland. Generally dry but cloudy in the Baltic States, some snow showers drifting inland from the coast later. Dry but cloudy in northern Finland and Sweden. Snow showers drift onto Norway's coasts while inland southern areas will be largely dry with bright spells, these brighter conditions extending into central Sweden.

Friday
Showers continue to affect north Spain, dry with sun elsewhere in Iberia. Heavy showers come and go around the central Mediterranean, including into central and southern Italy. Strong winds are likely as well. Heavy rain on the coastal Balkans, this rain extending inland in northern areas, falling as snow on high ground. Heavy rain for west Greece, dry and sunny to the east and in Türkiye.
A frosty morning from France eastward across the Alps and areas north into Poland. Some morning patchy snow in north and west France eases for an increasingly bright day from the north. Most of the continent north of the Alps will be dry and cloudy, though sun increasingly pushes in from the north. The Alps themselves will be snowy, this band of snow extending east through Austria, Slovakia, and southern Poland. Rain for Hungary with scattered showers southeast towards the Black Sea.
Very cold in Scandinavia, likely below freezing all day; bitter cold in the north. More snow showers into western Norway, becoming persistent on the southwestern coast later. Showers into Denmark. Sweden will be dry with sunny spells. Southern Finland and the Baltic States will see some patchy snow, this tending to fade for a drier evening with sunny spells.