Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 2nd October 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

A band of heavy rain will push eastwards across NW Europe. Unsettled and windy for Scandinavia.

Saturday
Largely dry across Spain and Portugal, however cloud will thicken and rain will push in to the far northwest later. One or two isolated showers cannot be ruled out over the Balearic Islands. Showers or longer spells of rain still for Sicily and parts of central Italy, otherwise largely dry aross Italy. A few scattered showers for the Greek islands but mostly dry elsewhere here as well as Turkey.
A band of rain, heavy for a time, pushes southeastwards across France and the Low Countries into western regions of Germany. Winds will also strengthen. Breezy and cloudy through the rest of Germany and Switzerland. Dry and fair across Austria, Poland as well as the Balkan States.
Windy across Scandinavia with showery rain affecting Norway and Sweden. Dry for Finland as well as the Baltic States. Windy and increasingly wet across Denmark.

Sunday
A band of heavier rain tracks southeastwards across Spain and Portugal, clearing behind to drier conditions. The rain then pushing across the Balearic Islands by evening. A few heavier showers still about affecting western regions of Italy as well as Sicily but largely dyr elsewhere here. Dry and fine for Greece and Turkey.
Spells of heavy rain push across France into southern and eastern regions through the afternoon, largely clearing the Low Countries through the day. Western parts of Germany will also see some rain but it should stay dry further east. Heavy rain moving in to Switzerland but Austria should remain dry. Eastern Europe staying dry although rather breezy.
Spells of rain, heavy in places, will affect much of Norway and Sweden with gale force winds for some. Strengthened winds for Finland also but it should remain dry here. Dry but windy across the Baltic States. Rain moving in to Denmark and becoming windy here also.