Issued: 0530hrs Friday 7th October 2022
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Windy with rain or showers for Scandinavia

Friday
Heavy showers for northern and northeastern Spain. Fair in central and southwestern areas of Iberia with plenty of sunshine. Heavy thunderstorms through the Balearics. Corsica and Sardinia will be dry and bright with sunny spells. Fair for Italy with lots of sunshine too. More sunshine for Greece although cool with some showers in Turkey.
France should be dry with sunny spells. Some showers in the far south of France. Windy for the Low Countries with some rain in the north. Germany should be dry and bright with sunny spells. Poland will be dry too with more sunshine to come. Fair in Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland with sunny periods.
Windy and wet in Denmark. The Baltic States will be windy and bright. Staying windy in Finland with some showers or rain. Windy too in Sweden with rain in the south. Heavy rain in west and southern Norway, wintry showers in the north.

Saturday
Areas of showers again for northeastern Spain, whilst southwest Spain and Portugal see a dry, warm and sunny day. Showery for the western Mediterranean, through the Balearics, Sardinia and Corsica. Dry across much of Italy and Greece, also western Turkey. Rain toward east Turkey and showery for Cyprus.
A cold front extends across Poland, the Czech Republic and the Alps, bringing some rain and showery bursts which may extend into northern Italy and Slovenia too. Dry around the Black Sea. Showery rain should clear from much of Germany, but northern coasts plus Denmark may continue to see showers into the afternoon. France and the Low Countries will be dry with sunshine and some early fog.
Westerly winds across Scandinavia. Wet for west and northern Norway, drier for Sweden and Finland, but showers across the Baltic states.