Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea
To   : All
From : Postbus 7
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 12:01:54

 * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * 
   from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm 

   Europe forecast - December 10, 2025
   Sunny Mediterranean
   Windy north, often wet

   Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 9th December 2025
   Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

   High pressure over the continent maintains fairly settled weather with
   a mix of cloud and sun with local rain. Fine to the south, more
   unsettled in the north.

   Wednesday
   Heavy showers through Spain today, merging to more persistent rain at
   times. Brighter in Portugal and in the east of Spain. Fair for the rest
   of the Mediterranean with sunny spells and dry conditions, some cloud
   in northern Italy. Greece will have sunshine and should be dry. Showers
   in northern Türkiye and lost of cloud around; heavy showers across
   Cyprus.
   Some cloud and outbreaks of rain in central France. Northern France
   should be dry with increasing sunny spells. The Low Countries and
   Germany as well as Poland will be mostly dry although some drizzle for
   central Germany and northern Poland. A notable breeze with mild
   temperatures will blow across the continent north of the Alps,
   particularly near the north coasts and these areas will be mostly
   cloudy. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be bright and
   dry with sunny spells. Often sunny as well towards the Black Sea.
   Powerful winds from the British Isles east into Denmark and southern
   Sweden. Broken cloud for Denmark. Early rain in southern Sweden and
   Norway sweeps north and east, reaching the Baltic States, turning to
   snow as it reaches central Scandinavia. Often snowing across central
   Scandinavia afternoon, more patchy to the far north.

   Thursday
   The day starts fine in Iberia with sunny spells, rain arrives into the
   northeast later. More fine weather across the Mediterranean with a mix
   of cloud and sun from Iberia eastward into Italy. The Balkan States
   will be sunny, as well as Greece and west Türkiye. Heavy showers will
   continue to affect Cyprus.
   Patchy rain in central and north France, drier with sun spells to the
   south. Some isolated patches of light rain in southern Germany early, a
   few patches further east in Slovakia, southern Poland, Ukraine, and
   Belarus as well. Elsewhere, a dry day with a mix of cloud and sun.
   Blustery in northern Germany and Poland.
   Strong winds continue to blow across Denmark and southern Sweden,
   across the Baltic Sea into the Baltic States. More rain for southern
   Norway and Sweden with some patches affecting Denmark. Patchy rain
   increasingly affects the Baltic States and merges into a broader area
   of rain later in the day. Snow in central Norway and Sweden, drier in
   Finland after some local morning patchy rain/snow in the south.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Prepared by the KNMI on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 12:37 am

Changeable and soft.

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue
Sunshine (%) 30 20 10 10 10 20 40
Precipitation probability (%) 10 10 20 40 30 20 20
Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
Minimum temp. (gr. C) 11 7 4 6 6 7 6
Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 13 9 11 10 10 11 11
Wind direction ZW Z Z ZW ZW Z Z
Wind force (bft) 4 3 2 3 3 3 3


Long term, Wednesday December 17, 2025 to Wednesday December 24, 2025:
Persistently variable. The chance of temperatures above the long-term average
decreases to approximately 50%.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 07:10 UTC 101225.

Gale warnings:
Humber German Bight Dogger 
southwest 7

other districts:
no warning


Synopsis:
Low, 962, over the Faroes will move northeastwards towards the Norwegian Sea. Ridge 
is building over the North Sea.

Forecast valid Wednesday 09:00 till Wednesday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
southwest 5-6, decreasing 4-5, later 3-4. good, first locally moderate.

Thames 
southwest 5-6, later decreasing 4-5. good, first in the east in the coastal area 
locally moderate.

Humber 
southwest 5-6, especially first in the northern part 6-7. good.

German Bight 
southwest 5-6, in the northern part increasing 6-7. good, first in the south in the 
coastal area locally moderate.

Dogger 
southwest 6-7. good.


Forecast valid Wednesday 21:00 till Thursday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
southwest 3-4, backing south. good.

Thames 
southwest 4-5, first in the northern part possibly 6. good.

Humber 
southwest 5-6. good.

German Bight 
southwest 5-6, first in the northern part 6-7. good, in the south in the coastal 
area decreasing moderate to poor and especially later risk of fog.

Dogger 
southwest 6-7, decreasing 5-6. good.


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 * Origin: Postbus 7 (21:1/146)

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