Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea To : All From : Postbus 7 Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 12:01 pm * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm Europe forecast - April 21, 2025 Widely showery Wet Portugal Monday Issued: 0530hrs Monday 21st April 2025 Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson Warm in east and southern Europe Monday Heavy rain in Portugal during the morning drifts into central Spain through the day. Mostly dry with sun for east and southern Spain and the Balearics. Heavy showery rain for Sardinia and Corsica weakens throughout the day. Bursts of showers for Italy, driest southeast. Bursts of showers and mostly cloudy for the Balkan states and west Greece. Fair in Türkiye. Showery rain for central France, breezy in the west. Showery rain with heavy spells drifts into the Low Countries and west Germany, drier to the east. Some spots of showers west Poland and south through Czechia and Austria. Mild temperatures here and most of eastern Europe. Decent sunshine Belarus southward to Bulgaria, outbreaks of showers in Romania. Cloudy with local showers for Denmark and southern Sweden. Staying dry in Norway with sunny spells here. Morning rain in Estonia and south Finland gradually fade for sun spells here and in Lithuania and Latvia. Tuesday A dry day for Portugal and western Spain. Increasingly showery for eastern Spain, heavy bursts by afternoon. Some showers forming for the Balearics, also Corsica and northern Italy. Drier with scattered showers southern Italy and Sicily. Showers forming increasingly into slow-moving downpours for the Balkan peninsula to mainland Greece, also western parts of Bulgaria and Romania. Drier and sunnier near the Black Sea. Scattered showers for Türkiye. Areas of showery rain also breaking out fairly widely for central France and Germany. Scattered showers for the Low Countries. Sunny spells for southern France. Local showers for the Alps, greater risk for Austria. Risk of heavy periods of rain toward west and northern Poland. A good deal of dry weather for Scandinavia, local afternoon showers mainly for Norway. * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * Expectation (medium) long term Dericated by the KNMI on Monday, April 21, 2025 at 05.06 am Wednesday and Thursday quite a lot of clouds and chance of showers, possibly with thunderstorms. Later in the week the most dry and there will be more room for the sun. In the Night can arise. The temperatures are around or slightly above it Long -term average. Ma di wo do vr Za so Sunshine (%) 40 30 40 50 50 50 60 Precipitation probability (%) 60 40 40 30 20 20 20 Precipitation sum (mm) 0/5 0/3 0/2 0/2 0/1 0 0 Minimum temp. (Gr. C) 3/8 8 8 8 7 4/7 6 Afternoon temp. (Gr. C) 16 16 16/19 15/18 15/19 15/18 17/20 Wind direction z no n no o no Wind force (BFT) 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 Long term, Monday, April 28, 2025 to Monday 5 May 2025: Calm weather with large sunny and dry periods but also a single shower. The temperature forecast is quite insecure, the greatest chance of temperatures is complete The long -term average. * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * North Sea shipping forecast Issued by KNMI at 07:42 UTC 210425. Gale warnings: There are no warnings. Synopsis: Trough across the Netherlands is slowly moving northwards. Forecast valid Monday 09:00 till Monday 21:00 UTC: Dover variable 1-3, soon southwest 3-4. good, temporary locally moderate to poor or fog. Thames variable 1-3. first in the northern part rain or drizzle. good, possibly decreasing moderate to poor. Humber variable 1-3. in the eastern part rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation possibly moderate. German Bight variable 1-3, gradually mainly west. occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to poor, locally fog. Dogger variable 2-4, gradually mainly west. occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to poor, increasing good, in the eastern part risk fog. Forecast valid Monday 21:00 till Tuesday 09:00 UTC: Dover southwest 3-4, veering west. risk an light shower. good, moderate in precipitation. Thames variable 1-3, later mainly southwest. risk an light shower. good, locally moderate to poor. Humber variable 1-3, later mainly southwest. risk an light shower. good, moderate in precipitation, decreasing moderate to poor. German Bight mainly west 1-3. occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to poor, risk fog. Dogger mainly west, backing mainly southwest 2-4. occasionally rain or drizzle. good, moderate in precipitation. --- * Origin: Postbus 7 (21:1/146) .