Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 10th March 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Rain central and western Europe, drier in the east

Sunday
Remaining changeable for France to Portugal, Spain, Austria and Switzerland with further periods of prolonged often heavy rain as a slow moving though deepening area of low pressure moves from Biscay inland into France during the day.
Rain circulating west to east through the day into FranceItaly, Solvenia, Bosnia, Croatia to Albania, Albania temperatures 10 to 12C. Dry though cloudy across Poland, to Estonia, to Ukraine with occassional outbreaks of rain. temperatures 5 to 8C.
Fine and mainly dry for Scandanavia with temperatures mainly below 0C though up to 5C for southern and Baltic fringes. Cloud with further outbreaks of rain will become widespread into the evening and overnight from France to Poland, Switzerland and Austria and into FranceHungary.

Monday
Rain in northern Spain today. Some showers over northwest Portugal Fair for the rest of Spain with sunny spells. Fair in the Balearics. Italy will be unsettled with rain at times. Greece should be dry with sunny spells. Turkey will be dry and bright, lots of sunshine and dry too.
Rain in west and southern France. A few showers in the north. Heavy showers for the Low Countries. Heavy periods of rain in northern Germany but southern areas are drier. Breezy with rain in Poland and some rain too in Hungary. Austria should be dry and bright. Some rain in western Switzerland, drier in the east.
Rain in the far south of Denmark. Fair for other areas and windy. Greece will be dry and brighter as well as cool. Finland will be dry too with some sunshine here, but cold. Sweden stays dry, although windy in the south. Cold and bright for Norway.