Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 7th March 2021
Duty forecaster: Claire Darbinyan

Low pressure brings heavy showers to the western Mediterranean

Sunday

Portugal should see a mainly dry day but Spain will hang on to the showery rain across central and eastern areas into Sunday. Western areas drier. Showers, some heavy and thundery, through the Balearic Islands and for Corsica and Sardinia. Largely dry across mainland Italy but showers moving in to western areas later in the day. Showery rain again for Greece with lingering patchy, light rain over parts of Turkey.
Largely dry and fine again for France although some showery rain affecting southern areas. Mainly dry and fine but mist and low cloud should be expected in places for the Low Countries and Germany. Mainly dry for Switzerland and Austria but a few showers developing later in the day here. Dry for much of eastern Europe although a band of rain will push into northern Poland in the afternoon.
Norway will see some snow showers into central areas but mainly dry conditions elsewhere. Largely dry and fine for Sweden. Rain, sleet and snow will clear southwards across Finland allowing for drier and brighter conditions from the north. Breezy through the Baltics and feeling cold with a few snow flurries but it will be mostly dry here. Cloudy across Denmark for a time with some patchy light rain.

Monday

Dry and fine for Portugal while widespread scattered showers affect much of Spain. A band of heavy showers extends over the Balearic Islands, Corsica and northern Sardinia into central Italy. These will be locally very heavy. Dry and fine to the north and south of Italy while isolated showers affect western Greece. Early rain clears eastern Turkey leaving a dry and fine day here.
Isolated showers fade from southern France to leave a dry and bright day. Cloud thickens from the north later and this extends into the Low Countries and northern Germany. Mostly dry and bright for southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland after early patchy rain and showers fade.
An increasingly cloudy but dry day for Denmark. Early showers fade from Finland and the Baltic States to leave a cold but dry and fair day here. Rain, sleet and snow affect northern portions of Norway and Sweden while southern areas staying dry. Best of the sun over southern Norway.