Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 9th October 2022
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Windy for Scandinavia, heavy rain moves in from west

Sunday
Heavy showers and a risk of thunderstorms in eastern Spain as well as northern and northwest Spain. Fair for most other areas of Iberia. Showers for Sardinia and Corsica. Thundery rain for Switzerland and northwestern Italy, showers along the spine of the Italy, drier to the south. Greece and Turkey will have lots of sunshine and dry weather.
Showers for southern France but fair elsewhere with sunny spells. Fine across the Low Countries. Germany should have a dry day with sunshine throughout. More sunshine, but some early mist and fog patches in Germany although these clearing quickly. Fair for Denmark with some sunshine here. The Baltic States will be fair and dry with sunshine. Breezy in the Baltic States with broken cloud. Fair for southern Sweden and windy here. Gales in western Norway with some heavy rain here.

Monday
Fairly unsettled across southwestern Europe, with areas of thundery rain across Spain and Portugal, mixed with some drier spells. Mostly dry for the Balearics, but expect thundery showers for Corsica, Sardinia and some more sustained rain for Sicily. Bursts of rain for much of Italy, increasingly through the day. Greece, Turkey and the Balkans will be generally dry. Likewise dry and quite warm over eastern Europe as a whole with a southerly airflow.
Some showers for west and southern France, a little patchy rain and cloud from a weakening front for northern France and the Low Countries. Much of Germany will be dry, local rain in the far northwest and a few showers toward the Alps.
Windy across Scandinavia. Rain moves across Norway into western Sweden. Heavy rain then showers for Denmark. Dry around the Baltic and much of Finland, quite mild here.