Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea
To   : All
From : Postbus 7
Date : Sun Aug 17 2025 12:00 pm

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

   Europe forecast - August 17, 2025
   Showery/thundery southeast
   Milder north

   Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 17th August 2025
   Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

   High pressure over the northern continent facilitates fine weather for
   many. Wet in southeast Europe with thunderstorms and becoming unsettled
   in northern Scandinavia.

   Sunday
   Hot sunshine and scattered showers for central and east Spain, dry and
   fine in Portugal and the Balearic Islands. Some scattered showers over
   Sardinia, Corsica, and Italy in the afternoon, but otherwise sunny.
   Afternoon showers for much of the Balkan States, most frequent and
   heavy in Croatia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina where
   heavy/thundery showers may occur. A few showers in west Greece but
   otherwise dry to the east and into Türkiye, only a few scattered
   showers on the south Türkiye coast.
   Dry and sunny for France and across Germany eastward through Czechia
   and Poland. Still warm here but milder than prior days. Cloudier over
   northern parts of the Low Countries and Germany possibly a few
   scattered spots of drizzly rain here. Showery outbreaks with local
   thunder in Austria and east Switzerland, the heaviest spells on
   southern mountains and near Slovenia. Heavy/thundery showers too in
   Hungary and west Romania. Some local patchy rain in central Ukraine.
   Largely fine near the Black Sea.
   Denmark and southern parts of Sweden and Norway will be substantially
   sunny. Cloudier to the north with regular spells of rain across
   Norway's central and northern coasts, some rain drifting inland into
   northern Sweden. Cloudy for much of Finland with spells of rain in
   central and southern areas. Wet too in the morning for the Baltic
   States with local thundery downpours, trending dry and sunny later into
   the day.

   Monday
   A cloudier day for Iberia and the Balearics with patchy rain in
   northern Spain, some showery outbreaks in the east. Remaining showery
   for the central Mediterranean, showers more frequent and heavy in
   central and southern Italy. The northern Balkan States largely fine;
   wet with thundery downpours moving south into Serbia and Bulgaria and
   neighboring countries. Some thundery showers inland Greece as well.
   Only scattered light showers in Türkiye with plentiful sunshine.
   Cloud tending to build from the west into France with rain spells in
   the south and southeast mountains. High pressure creates find
   conditions in north France through the Low Countries, Germany, and
   Czechia. A few lingering showers in Switzerland and Austria,
   increasingly sunny here. Some cloud from Poland southward into Hungary
   and east into Ukraine and Belarus but substantially dry. Often raining
   in Romania with local thunderstorms.
   More sun for Denmark and southern Sweden and Norway. Some light morning
   rain in the Baltic States also tending to give way to sun. Strong
   westerlies into northwest Norway with persistent rain onto the coast,
   drifting inland to northern Sweden and Finland. Southern Finland dry
   with sun spells.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Dericated by the KNMI on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 4.27 am

Sunny periods and dry. Summer temperatures on Tuesday. Later in the week
The temperatures decrease to (spacious) below the long -term average.

So ma di wo do vr Za
Sunshine (%) 30 50 60 50 40 40 40
Precipitation probability (%) 20 10 10 10 10 20 20
Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0 0 0/1
Minimum temp. (Gr. C) 11 8/15 14 13 14 13 11
Afternoon temp. (Gr. C) 20 23/27 27 24 22 20 21
Wind direction n no no n n n nw w
Wind force (BFT) 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3


Long term, Sunday 24 August 2025 to Sunday 31 August 2025:
A slightly changeable weather type with around 30% chance of precipitation every day. The
Temperature forecast is uncertain.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 07:34 UTC 170825.

Gale warnings:
There are no warnings.


Synopsis:
high, 1029, north of Scotland moving slowly northeast. associated ridge over England 
moving slowly to the central part of the North Sea.

Forecast valid Sunday 09:00 till Sunday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
east to northeast 3-4, increasing 4-5. risk light drizzle. good, in precipitation 
possibly moderate.

Thames 
northeast 3-4. occasionally light drizzle. good, in precipitation possibly moderate.

Humber Dogger 
north 3-4, later veering northeast. occasionally light drizzle. good, in 
precipitation possibly moderate.

German Bight 
north to northwest 3-4, first possibly 5, later veering north to northeast. 
occasionally light drizzle. good, in precipitation possibly moderate.


Forecast valid Sunday 21:00 till Monday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
northeast 4-5, decreasing east 3-4. risk light drizzle. good, in precipitation 
possibly moderate.

Thames 
northeast 3-4. risk light drizzle. good, in precipitation possibly moderate.

Humber 
northeast 3-4. occasionally light drizzle. good, in precipitation possibly moderate.

German Bight 
north to northeast 3-4, later decreasing northeast 2-3. good.

Dogger 
northeast 3-4, later decreasing 2-3. occasionally light drizzle. good, in 
precipitation possibly moderate.


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

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