Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea To : All From : Postbus 7 Date : Wed Apr 23 2025 12:00 pm * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm Europe forecast - April 23, 2025 Thundery rain Fair north and west Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 23rd April 2024 Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling Heavy, thundery showers and rain in central and eastern areas of the Mediterranean Wednesday A fine, sunny day for Iberia. Sunny for the Balearics and Sardinia and Corsica, some showers around in the afternoon. Showers across Italy starting midday, heavy outbursts will be common. Showers will be quite persistent in the mountainous north. Heavy showers return across the Baltic States and western areas of Bulgaria and Romania, fading in the evening. Scattered showers in Greece and Türkiye. Widespread rain in central and north France. Strong onshore winds and feeling quite cool here. Rain with heavy spells in the Low Countries and Germany as well, feeling cool. Frequent showery rain across the Alps, Slovakia, and Hungary. Drier with only scattered showers in Czechia and Poland, plenty of sun spells. A band of showers across west Ukraine and Belarus and feeling warm. Outbreaks of showers in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Largely dry with sun spells in the Baltic States, some rain into Estonia later. Brief spells of showery rain across Finland. Thursday Fair with plenty of sunshine in Spain and Portugal. Fine in the Balearics with more sunshine. Some showers in Corsica and Sardinia. Heavy and persistent showers and rain over Italy. Heavy thundery showers too for much of Greece. Further thunderstorms in western areas of Turkey but dry in the east. Sunshine and more scattered showers in France. Heavy showers developing in the Low Countries, western and southern Germany, Drier in northern Germany. Fine for northern Poland but rain and showers in the south. Hungary will be thundery as will be Austria. Further showers for Switzerland although these are lighter. Denmark is dry and bright with sunny spells. The Baltic States will be breezy with bright spells. Finland is going to be dry with sunshine too. A few showers in central Sweden but dry in most areas. Scattered wintry showers in northern Norway, fair in the south. * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * Expectation (medium) long term Dericated by the KNMI on Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 2.43 am Mostly dry with more and more sun. Mist can occur in the night. The maximum temperatures are still below the long -term average on Friday, but go Then continue to 20-25 ° C every day. WO DO VR SA ZO Ma di Sunshine (%) 20 10 40 70 70 70 70 Precipitation probability (%) 80 80 10 20 10 10 10 Precipitation sum (mm) 5/10 8/22 0 0 0 0 0 Minimum temp. (Gr. C) 8 10 7 5 7 7 9 Afternoon temp. (Gr. C) 16 12 17 19 21 21 23 Wind direction o n no oh so no so Wind force (BFT) 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 Long term, Wednesday April 30, 2025 to Wednesday 7 May 2025: Calm weather with large sunny periods. The chances of precipitation are initially Small but rise to 30-40%at the end of the EPS period. The Temperature forecast is uncertain. * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * North Sea shipping forecast Issued by KNMI at 07:27 UTC 230425. Gale warnings: There are no warnings. Synopsis: low, 1009, over The Channel will move to France and filling. a trough over the south of the Netherlands activates. Forecast valid Wednesday 09:00 till Wednesday 21:00 UTC: Dover cyclonic 4-6, decreasing northeast 3-4. in the morning and first in the afternoon showery rain. moderate to good, in precipitation possibly poor. Thames east to southeast 3-4, possibly 5, backing north to northeast 4-5. in the South first showery rain, then occasional showers. moderate to good, in the afternoon and evening in the East risk fog. Humber east to southeast 3-4, backing northeast increasing 4-5. in the southeastern part risk shower. moderate to good, risk fog. German Bight east to southeast 3-4, backing northeast increasing 4-5. in the southern part risk shower. moderate to good, first risk fog. Dogger east to southeast 3-4, backing northeast. moderate to good, in the morning risk fog. Forecast valid Wednesday 21:00 till Thursday 09:00 UTC: Dover northeast 3-4, increasing north to northeast 4-5. risk shower. moderate to good, gradually risk fog. Thames north to northeast 4-5, possibly 6. showery rain. moderate to good, first in the East risk fog. Humber northeast 4-5, possibly 6. in the southeastern part risk showery rain. moderate to good. German Bight northeast 4-5, in the southern part possibly 6. in the southern part risk showery rain. moderate to good. Dogger northeast 3-4, possibly 5. moderate to good. --- * Origin: Postbus 7 (21:1/146) .