Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 21st October 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Chilly, wet weather across northern Europe continues. Heavy showery through the Balearics.

Thursday
A fair day over most of Spain and Portugal on Thursday, although always a threat of some cloud on northern coasts and hills. Some cloud through the Balearics, perhaps thick enough to produce an isolated shower. Fine across much of Italy, although a risk of a shower in the north. Greece should be fine with some good spells of sunshine here. There will be sunshine too in Turkey.
Rain in northern France and cooler weather here. central and southern France should be fine with decent spells of sunshine. Windy and chilly across the Low Countries and northern Germany. Windy with a risk of gales together with cold weather and rain in much of Poland. Southern Germany and Hungary should be drier with sunny spells. The fair weather in Switzerland and Austria too.
Unsettled again for Denmark with more rain to come here. Windy and cloudy in the Baltic States with rain. Cold in Finland, although dry with sunny spells. Norway will be having more wintry weather in the north and west where it will be cold and windy.

Friday
Dry and fair weather for much of Spain again, heavy showers expected in the east and southeast as well as across the Balearics. A few scattered showers across Corsica and Sardinia in the morning, these clearing later, but some showery rain continuing through northern and central regions of Italy. Largely dry across Greece and Turkey.
Mainly dry across France with improving weather through Switzerland, Austria and southern Germany. Chilly and windy with cloud and spells of rain across the Low Countries, Denmark and northern regions of Germany into Poland. Showers down the Balkan States.
Chilly and mixed weather continues across Scandinavia. Showers or longer spells of rain for parts of Norway into west Sweden but largely dry across the rest of Sweden. Outbreaks of rain across Finland into the Baltic States and windy here.