Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 3rd January 2026
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Cold for much of Europe with snow in the north, wet southern Spain

Saturday
Showers spread more widely across Iberia with time, the heaviest and most frequent in the southwest. Some showers will reach the Balearics late in the day. A few scattered showers in the central Mediterranean, these more frequent in southwest Italy; bright in the north of Italy. Often raining in the central and southern Balkan States with morning snow in the north. Frequent showery rain in western parts of Greece and Türkiye, elsewhere mostly dry though often cloudy.
Staying cold all day north of the Alps from Germany eastward, though locally milder near the Black Sea, particularly Bulgaria. A few snow showers in northern France but an increasingly bright day for the country. Wind and snow showers persist from the Low Countries across Germany, Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, a few in northwest Ukraine too. Some patchy snow over the central Alps but often dry. Morning snow in Hungary and Romania will east with time for bright spells.
Breezy around the Baltic Sea with more snow for Denmark, southern parts of Sweden and Finland, and the Baltic States. Remaining drier but cloudy in northern Scandinavia. Norway largely dry as well except for snow showers grazing the west coast.

Sunday
Heavy rain affecting southern areas of Spain on Sunday with further areas of rain in the east too. Windy northern and western Spain and Portugal with sunshine. Showers in the Balearics with heavy showers in Corsica and Sardinia too. Wet in central and southern Italy, some of the rain heavy, a risk of snow in the north. Fair for much of Greece as well as Turkey.
Fair for much of France, more sunshine here. Cold with wintry showers in the Low Countries. Snow showers affecting northern areas of Germany and northern Poland with a strong west wind here. Drier in southern Poland and Germany, Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will have plenty of sunshine and dry weather.
Snow showers for Denmark, some heavy. Snow in the Baltic States, heavy at times. Cold but mostly dry in Finland. Snow showers for eastern areas of Sweden, fry north and west. Snow showers in northern and western Norway, the showers heavy in the north.