Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 26th March 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Thursday
Breezy and fair in Spain and Portugal, some cloud and showers along Spain's north coast. Some showers for the Balearics. Powerful wind and showers in Sardinia and Corsica, pushing into southern Italy. Heavy showers in Italy, some of them thundery; more persistent rain in eastern areas. Heavy showers in the Balkan States, extending into western Greece, fair in the east. A fine day in Türkiye with good spells of sunshine here.
A northwesterly winds brings cooler air from eastern France across Germany, the Low Countries, into Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland. A day of showers in eastern France, The Low Countries, and Germany, a few snowflakes will be mixed in. Fine in western France. Rain in eastern Poland stretches into eastern Czechia and Slovakia. Dry and milder Belarus southward to Bulgaria, sunshine breaking out with time.
Denmark is going to be breezy and bright, a few showers. Sunny spells for the Baltic States, some rain in the far east. Mostly dry Finland, some local sleety rain in the west and north. Rain and snow in northern Sweden, dry with sun spells south. Norway will have snow and showers in the west and north, bright spells in the southeast.

Friday
Fine and mostly sunny in Iberia. Scattered showers and sun spells in the central Mediterranean islands. Rain and snow in south and east Italy, sunshine in the northwest. Frequent showery rain and upland snow across the Balkan States and into Greece and western Türkiye; some local heavy bursts likely.
Dawn frosts for many in eastern France and Germany. France starts sunny, cloud building with patchy rain north; similar conditions in the Low Countries and Germany. Some snow in the mountains of Switzerland and Austria, isolating to just eastern Austria later. Some snow in eastern Czechia, Slovakia, and southern Poland. Northern Poland will be sunny. Rain in western Hungary sweeps into southwest Romania, spreading more widely into Bulgaria. Mild again Belarus, Ukraine, and Romania.
A mostly sunny day for the Baltic States. Sunny too in Denmark, some rain in the west late in the day. Sweden and Finland often sunny as well, some local areas of snow in the north. A bright start in Norway, rain and snow arriving from the west and pushing east, some snow patches in the north as well.