Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 24th January 2024
Duty forecaster: John

Pressure rising with anticyclone extending west-central-east

Wednesday
Low pressure located across Baltic regions will give a day of cloud and snow across Norway, Sweden and Finland, with heavy snow through Estonia to Poland and Belarus Belarus. Stormy with a mix of sunshine and showers for Denmark, Belgium and Netherlands with squally showers and gales along North Sea coasts. Further areas of snow will occur during the day into Germany, Czech, Switzerland and Austria Austria towards Italian Alps. Fpr France cloudy in eastern departments with outbreaks of patchy rain, an area of cloud and rain into southwest England, across the Channel to northwest France, dry though mainly cloudy for remainder of France. Southern France, Spain and PortugalPortugal, south of the Alps, across Italy to Greece mainly dry and sunny though showers likely across Bulgaria to Turkey.

Thursday
Low pressure now filling and moving east away from Baltic, leaving sunshine and frequent showers in Estonia Estonia to Belarus, showers easing across Norway, Sweden and Finland. Temperatures below 0C. For Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and along Baltic shores winds will ease and change to westerly decreasing during the day, variable cloud sunshine and scattered showers, temperatures mainly near 0C to 2C. Cloudy though mainly dry with fog persistent and slow to clear in valley across France to Germany Germany, but sunny where cloud breaks, temperatures 6C to 8C. Italy to Albania and across to Greece and Turkey mainly dry with sunshine, though scattered showers, temperatures 10C to 12C.