Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea To : All From : Postbus 7 Date : Mon Dec 01 2025 12:02 pm * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm Europe forecast - December 01, 2025 Windy north Heavy showers Italy Issued: 0530hrs Monday 1st December 2025 Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson Rain moves across northern Europe into Scandinavia Monday Dry in Iberia with some scattered cloud, some rain in northwest Spain late in the day. Showers along some southern Costas, also the Balearics, Sardinia, Corsica. Heavier thundery showers for Italy's west coast. Drier southern Italy. Cloudy into the northern Balkan States but dry here. Sunshine for the southern Balkans, Greece, and Türkiye. Sunny in central and southern France, but strong winds in the north with some rain, later heavy in northwest. Strong winds extend across the Low Countries and into northern Germany where some patchy rain develops. Most of Germany will be dry with sunny spells, fine conditions extending over the Alps and into most of southeast Europe. A front over Poland with early patchy rain fades, rather cloudy. Some rain in western Ukraine. A windy day in Denmark and southern Sweden, increasingly windy in southern Norway. Dry here to start, but a broad area of rain and snow arrives from the southwest afternoon and becomes widespread across Denmark and south Norway. Northern Norway and Sweden will have early snow, this clearing for sunny spells. Finland starts with snow and rain as well, this also clearing gradually to the northeast. Some early rain in the Baltic States will clear eastward. Tuesday A cold front moves southeastward over Spain and Portugal, bringing a spell of rain, followed by showers in the northwest of Iberia. Small amounts of rain reaching eastern Spain. A few showers around the Balearics, drier for Corsica and Sardinia. Slow-moving bursts of rain for southern Italy and the Adriatic coastline to western Greece. Much of Greece, Türkiye and the eastern Mediterranean will be dry and sunny. Spells of rain through France, the Low Countries into western Germany, some heavier showers moments. Brisk southwesterly winds. Mild through central and eastern Europe. Generally dry for Alps, south and eastern Germany and into eastern countries from Poland to the Black Sea. Windy for Scandinavia, heavy rain into southern Norway, snow into the mountains. Also rain in Sweden, pushing north with some snow in northern areas. Rain on and off for Denmark. Dry with southerly breezes into Finland and the Baltic states, fairly mild around the southern Baltic. * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * Expectation (medium) long term Prepared by the KNMI on Monday, December 1, 2025 at 4:03 am Partly cloudy with occasional light rain. From Saturday the changeability increases, causing precipitation chances to increase to approximately 80%. Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Sunshine (%) 30 10 10 30 30 10 20 Precipitation probability (%) 60 50 30 10 20 40 70 Precipitation sum (mm) 1/3 1/3 0/2 0 0 0/3 0/3 Minimum temp. (gr. C) 2 4 6 5 0/4 1/4 5/8 Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 7 8 9 8 7 8 10 Wind direction Z Z Z Z Z SE SW Wind force (bft) 5 4 4 3 2 3 3 Long term, Monday December 8, 2025 to Monday December 15, 2025: Changeable weather, with a 50% chance of precipitation every day. Over the course of the period, precipitation chances gradually decrease to 30-40%. The temperatures are down probably (well) above the long-term average. * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * North Sea shipping forecast Issued by KNMI at 08:24 UTC 011225. Gale warnings: all districts south to southwest 8 Synopsis: low, 963, southwest of Iceland is slowly moving southeast. associated troughs across the North Sea remain fairly stationary. Forecast valid Monday 09:00 till Monday 21:00 UTC: Dover Thames Humber Dogger south to southwest 7-8. periods of rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation moderate. German Bight south to southwest 6-7, soon increasing 7-8. first risk of an light shower, soon periods of rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation moderate. Forecast valid Monday 21:00 till Tuesday 09:00 UTC: Dover south to southwest 7-8, decreasing 6-7, later southwest 4-5. occasionally rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation moderate. Thames Humber German Bight south to southwest 7-8, decreasing 6-7, later southwest 5-6. occasionally rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation moderate. Dogger south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 5-6. occasionally rain or drizzle. good, in precipitation moderate. --- * Origin: Postbus 7 (21:1/146) .