Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 23rd February 2020
Duty forecaster: Claire Darbinyan

A spell of dry and bright weather for the Mediterranean

Sunday
A dry and bright day for Portugal, Spain and the Balearic Islands. Dry and fine too for Italy and Greece though patchy cloud affects northern areas at times. A bright and mostly dry day for western Turkey, cloudier to the east with a few scattered showers affecting southern coastal regions.
A cloudy day for northern France and the Low Countries with outbreaks of rain. Dry and bright for central and southern parts of France. An area of heavy rain spreads east across Germany and the Czech Republic into Poland. Showers and showery outbreaks of rain for Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia and, later, Hungary.
Breezy and cloudy for Denmark with outbreaks of rain to the south. Fine for Finland and the Baltic States with isolated wintry showers. Mostly bright for Sweden with isolated wintry showers to the south. Showers tending to ease over western parts of Norway to leave a mostly dry and bright day here too.

Monday
Monday is dry and bright across the Mediterranean with good spells of sunshine for Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Some cloud around to the east at times. Fronts bring outbreaks of rain and snow into central and eastern Turkey from the north later.
Showery outbreaks of rain for northern France and the Low Countries. Dry and bright across central and southern France. Heavy rain moves across northern Germany while southern areas see isolated showers. Early showers ease for Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic to leave a dry and fine day here. Dry and bright for Hungary and Slovakia.
Mostly dry and bright across Denmark and southern parts of Norway and Sweden though an area of rain and snow arrives here from the southwest later. Bright over northern Norway and Sweden with isolated wintry showers. Mostly fine and bright for Finland and the Baltic States too with occasional isolated wintry showers.