Issued: 0530hrs Monday 15th December 2025
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

High pressure in southeast Europe keeps the weather settled and often sunny here. More unsettled west and north, particularly wet in the southwest.

Monday
Heavy rain affecting western Spain and Portugal on Monday. Showers in central Spain but a further areas of rain in the east. This also affects the Balearics. Heavy periods of thundery rain later in Sardinia and Corsica. Italy will be dry with morning mist and fog. The Balkans, Greece, and Türkiye are dry and bright, good spells of sunshine here.
Rain in southern France, outbreaks of showers elsewhere, possibly frequent west. Drier in the north with some sunny spells. The Low Countries and Germany should be dry and bright as well as breezy. Poland will be fair with sunshine, more cloud to the south in Czechia and Slovakia. Switzerland and Austria will all be dry with sunny spells, with sun more extensive in the countries near the Black Sea.
Breezy and mostly dry but cloudy for Denmark. Showery rain in the Baltic States. Rain and sleet in Finland, a broader area of snow in the north later; gales here too. Fair for Sweden with broken cloud. Rain in western Norway but heavy showers and strong winds to the north.

Tuesday
Often raining in Iberia and over the Balearics, the rain heaviest and most persistent in eastern Spain. A broad area of rain lingers over Sardinia, Corsica, and western Italy, the rain heavy and incessant in northwest Italy, increasingly more widespread across the west coast. A risk of strong winds in the central Mediterranean. Some cloud in Croatia, but the rest of the Balkan States likely sunny and fine; similarly fine in Greece and west Türkiye.
Some showery rain in France but decent sunny spells between the rain. Patchy rain will drift into the Low Countries. Snow in the southern mountains of Switzerland, dry with a mix of cloud and sun for the rest of the country and similar conditions in Austria. Most of the northern and eastern continent will see a mix of cloud and sun, with the sun most abundant from Slovakia/Hungary and eastward towards the Black Sea.
Likely dry with mixed cloud and sun in Denmark and southern Sweden, some patchy rain is possible later in the day. Some rain and snow in southwest Norway, spreading north later. Some rain too in central parts of Sweden and Finland, mostly dry elsewhere but largely cloudy. Dry too in the Baltic States with increasing bright spells from the south.