Issued: 0530hrs Monday 21st April 2025
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Warm in east and southern Europe

Monday
Heavy rain in Portugal during the morning drifts into central Spain through the day. Mostly dry with sun for east and southern Spain and the Balearics. Heavy showery rain for Sardinia and Corsica weakens throughout the day. Bursts of showers for Italy, driest southeast. Bursts of showers and mostly cloudy for the Balkan states and west Greece. Fair in Türkiye.
Showery rain for central France, breezy in the west. Showery rain with heavy spells drifts into the Low Countries and west Germany, drier to the east. Some spots of showers west Poland and south through Czechia and Austria. Mild temperatures here and most of eastern Europe. Decent sunshine Belarus southward to Bulgaria, outbreaks of showers in Romania.
Cloudy with local showers for Denmark and southern Sweden. Staying dry in Norway with sunny spells here. Morning rain in Estonia and south Finland gradually fade for sun spells here and in Lithuania and Latvia.

Tuesday
A dry day for Portugal and western Spain. Increasingly showery for eastern Spain, heavy bursts by afternoon. Some showers forming for the Balearics, also Corsica and northern Italy. Drier with scattered showers southern Italy and Sicily. Showers forming increasingly into slow-moving downpours for the Balkan peninsula to mainland Greece, also western parts of Bulgaria and Romania. Drier and sunnier near the Black Sea. Scattered showers for Türkiye.
Areas of showery rain also breaking out fairly widely for central France and Germany. Scattered showers for the Low Countries. Sunny spells for southern France. Local showers for the Alps, greater risk for Austria. Risk of heavy periods of rain toward west and northern Poland. A good deal of dry weather for Scandinavia, local afternoon showers mainly for Norway.