Issued: 0530hrs Friday 2nd January 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Low pressure in the northeast and southwest facilitates generally unsettled weather across Europe, the best of bright spells in central/western areas but chilly here.

Friday
Showery rain for central and western Iberia, skies increasingly sunny in east Spain and the Balearics. Scattered showers for Sardinia and Corsica, as well as central and southern Italy, though eastern areas will be drier with sun. Showers in the Balkan States, most showers near the coast and turning snowy on higher elevations, later spreading more widely into Croatia. Showers arrive in western Greece, dry and bright over the Aegean and most of Türkiye.
Some rain and snow in northern France, dry and brighter to the south. The Low Countries, Germany, and Poland will be cold and windy with snow showers, these pushing into Czechia and Slovakia too. Often snowing across Belarus. Snow will later arrive to Switzerland Austria. Snow in southern Hungary and western Romania, drier and brighter to the east and southward into Bulgaria.
Widely cold across Scandinavia. Frequently snowing with strong winds in southern Sweden and Finland, Denmark, and the Baltic States. Norway is generally drier with showers largely isolated to the coast, but still cloudy. Less wind and snow in northern Scandinavia but very cold and cloudy here.

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.