Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 25th December 2024
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

High pressure and sun in Central Europe. Breezy with drizzle and rain in the north. East Mediterranean remains unsettled.

Christmas Day Wednesday
Dry and sunny for the Iberia and southern France. Mostly sunny with showery spells in the Balearics, Sardinia and Corsica. Unsettled for southern Italy with risk of gales. Greece and Türkiye experience heavy showers, some thundery in the Aegean Sea and Türkiye's south coast.
North France will see thick cloud which extends into the British Isles. Cloudy and isolated drizzle for the Low Counties, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Poland. Central areas near the Alps will see mostly sunny conditions. Clouds east and south of Hungary with rain and snow inland in the Balkans and Romania. Mostly dry but still cloudy in Ukraine and Belarus.
Patches of brightness and drizzle in the Baltic states. Breezy here too. Similar conditions into Finland. Norway sees persistent breezy rain on the west coast with occasional sun spells inland towards Sweden.

Boxing Day Thursday
Mostly sunny with occasional cloud patches in Iberia. Scattered clouds east into the Mediterranean with unsettled conditions remaining in southern Italy and east. Thundery showers continuing in southern Greece and Türkiye.
Sun spreads into France and Central Germany giving central Europe a fine day. Sun extends east across the alps towards Slovakia, Hungary, northern Croatia, and northern Romania. Clouds south of here with patchy showers.
Clouds persist along the shores of the North and Baltic Seas, mostly dry. Northeastern Europe remains overcast though quite dry as well. Showers turn snowy on Norway's west coast, quite windy further north. Sun in and out for Sweden and Finland, more consistently sunny north.