Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 20th December 2020
Duty forecaster: Claire Darbinyan

Very mild temperatures for the time of year in western Europe

Sunday
Improving conditions from the west across Portugal and Spain. Heavy showers aross the Balearic Islands. Continuing with the showers and or longer spells of rain for Corsica and Sardinia as well as Sicily. Mainland Italy looks to be mostly dry but with a few scattered showers about in places. Cloud thickening across western Greece but mainly dry here. Dry too for Turkey.
A wet start for eastern France but the rain should gradually become confined to the far east later. Drier elsewhere but with a few scattered showers about. Largely dry across the Low Countries although there could be some light rain along the coasts here. Patchy rain pushes eastwards across Germany. Settled across eastern Europe. Largely dry across the Alpine countries although there is the risk of some rain for western Switzerland.
Rain will clear eastern areas of Finland first thing to allow for a largely dry day here. Mostly dry too for Sweden. Rain affecting northern and western areas of Norway with strong to gale force winds along the coasts. Largely dry and mild across the Baltic States although some patchy rain could move into western areas later on. A breezy day but largely dry over Denmark but with some light rain to the far north and far west.

Monday
Some cloud and patchy rain for northern Iberia, otherwise a dry and fine day across Portugal and Spain. Isolated showers possible for the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and southern Italy though it will stay largely dry and sunny. Dry and bright too for much of Italy. Variable amounts of cloud around for Greece and Turkey with isolated showers for western Greece and northern Turkey.
Rain, some of this heavy, spreads across France, the Low Countries and into western Germany and Switzerland on Monday. Staying dry and bright to the far south of France. Winds strengthen here too. Cloud thickens over eastern Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic though it stays dry. Staying dry and fine further east for Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
Starting dry and fine for Denmark though cloud thickens, winds strengthen and rain arrives later. Mostly dry and fair for the Baltic States with patchy rain or showers at times over coastal areas. Patchy outbreaks of rain affect Finland while Sweden sees a mostly dry and fine day. Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow affect southwest Norway through the day, staying mostly dry and fair across the rest of the country.