Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 26th October 2022
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair much of central and southern Europe, some rain in the far west

Wednesday
Showers in Portugal today, mostly in the north. Some rain for northwest Sain with showers imn the west. eastern and southern Spain will be dry and bright with decent spells of sunshine. Fair for much of the Mediterranean with lots of sunshine here. Greece and Turkey should be dry too, again staying sunny.
Some showers developing in central France but otherwise the day is dry with lots of sunny spells. A few showers across the Low Countries with Germany staying dry, warm and sunny. More sunshine in Poland and dry here. Hungary and Austria should be dry with some lots of sunshine and it will be staying dry in Switzerland too.
Denmark will be bright and day throughout the day. Fair for Sweden, good spells of sunshine in the south, The Baltic States should be dry with sunny spells, although a few showers in Finland. Norway will have windy and rain in the southwest, fair for most central areas but some snow showers in the north.

Thursday
Rain affecting western Portugal through Thursday, this affecting northwest Spain too. A few showers in southern and central Spain. Fair in the east with sunny spells. Staying fine through the Mediterranean with lots of sunshine across the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy. Scattered showers forming over Greece, but dry and sunny for most of Turkey.
Fair and dry for France with good spells of sunshine, widy in the west and southern. Fair for the Low Countries with sunny spells. Some cloud in northern Germany with a few spots of rain here. Fine for Poland with lots of sunshine. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be dry with sunshine.
Broken cloud in Denmark but it should be basically dry. Fair for the Baltic States. Some wintry showers affecting Finland. weden should be mostly dry although some showers in the southwest. Heavy, wintry showers for western parts of Norway.