Issued: 0530hrs Monday 20th April 2026
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Rain affecting the Balkans. Drier yet windy across northern Europe.

Monday
Fine and warm weather continues for much of Spain and Portugal, risk of local showers in the northeast, mainly around the Pyrenees. An odd shower for Corsica, but largely dry and sunny for the Balearics and Sardinia. Scattered showers for Italy and mainland Greece, some locally heavy later afternoon inland. More frequent showery rain for the Balkan states and into Bulgaria. Dry and sunny for much of Turkey and Cyprus.
Local showers form in southwest France, but most of France will be dry with sunny spells. A band of rain will be draped across northern Germany and central-southern Poland, also western Ukraine. Patchy showers for Belgium and the Netherlands and southern Germany. Scattered afternoon showers for Switzerland and Austria, whilst Hungary stays largely dry. Showery rain into Romania.
Strong easterly winds for the southern Baltic. Windy too for Denmark, but early rain clears. High pressure over Scandinavia brings dry weather to Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Tuesday
More cloud with the greater risk of heavier showers and longer spells of rain across northwestern regions of Spain as well as north Portugal. Northeast Spain into southern areas of France will also see showers. Elsewhere across Spain and southern regions of Portugal will remain dry and fine and feel warm. Much of the rest of France will be dry with sunny spells though windy across northern regions. Italy as well as Austria will remain largely unsettled with cloudy skies and heavy showers as well as rain. Showers easing across the northern Balkans though staying wet into southern regions including Greece and Bulgaria. Some showers affecting central and southern Germany, these mainly patchy and light. Dry across Poland with sunny spells. Remaining dry across the Baltics with plenty of sunshine though it will remain windy and therefore feel cold in the wind, particuraly across northern regions of Norway and Sweden.