MSGID: 2:280/2050 6943decd   
    * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * *    
      from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm    
      
      Europe forecast - December 18, 2025   
      Windy, often wet north   
      Best sun southeast   
      
      Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 18th December 2025   
      Duty forecaster: Dan Graves   
      
      Strong winds blow across northern Europe; often wet here, some rain   
      drifting across west/southwestern countries as well.   
      
      Thursday   
      Fair for Portugal and Spain with good spells of sunshine, through heavy   
      rain arrives into northwestern areas late in the day. Rain and cloud in   
      eastern areas of Spain. Some scattered showers over the Balearics and   
      Corsica though often dry and sunny. Scattered showers too in Italy,   
      mostly north and west, but often dry. Mixed cloud and sun for the   
      Balkan States. Greece and Turkey should be dry with decent spells of   
      sunshine to come here.   
      France will be mostly dry with broken cloud, just an odd shower to the   
      south, windy in the west and increasingly wet northwest. Early rain in   
      the Low Countries and northwest Germany tends to east, some sun   
      breaking out. Poland and Hungary should be dry with good spells of   
      sunshine. Austria and Switzerland are mostly dry, just an occasional   
      showers in the south. A few showers too in Slovakia and Romania but   
      many dry with sun spells.   
      Widely windy across northern Europe. Extensive rain and snow in central   
      and south Norway in the morning soon slips east into Denmark and   
      Sweden, snow spreading widely in northern areas and into Finland. South   
      and east Finland stay dry though cloudy, similar conditions in the   
      Baltic States too.   
      
      Friday   
      A band of heavy rain sweeps across Portugal and west Spain, rain more   
      scattered east Spain. Scattered showers for the Balearics, Sardinia,   
      and Corsica. Showers in northwest Italy too, brighter south. A few   
      showers for coastal Croatia, otherwise the Balkan States dry and   
      bright. Greece and Türkiye also sunny most of the day.   
      Rain sweeps across west and central France, scattered showers in the   
      far southeast. This rain extends into the Low Countries and northern   
      Germany, tending to ease as the day goes. Often bright/sunny in   
      southern Germany and the Alpine countries. Some cloud and patchy rain   
      in Slovakia and Hungary, more often sunny towards the Black Sea. Poland   
      will be often sunny as well.   
      A keen southwesterly wind blows across Denmark and southern parts of   
      Norway and Sweden. Early rain in Denmark and Sweden passes into   
      Finland. Some snow will linger across northern Scandinavia into   
      nighttime. Rain/snow showers into southwest Norway. Drier in the   
      Baltics with sunny spells, though some rain into Estonia later in the   
      day.   
      
    * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * *    
      
   Expectation (medium) long term   
      
   Prepared by the KNMI on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 3:31 am   
      
   Mild at first, occasional rain and a chance of fog at night and during the   
   weekend   
   morning. Persistently gray early next week, but mostly dry and gradual   
   less soft.   
      
   Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed   
   Sunshine (%) 30 40 10 20 30 20 10   
   Precipitation probability (%) 50 60 20 30 20 20 20   
   Precipitation sum (mm) 0/2 0/2 0 0/1 0 0 0   
   Minimum temp. (gr. C) 6 8 3 4 3 1 2   
   Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 12 12 8 9 7 5 4   
   Wind direction S SW S SE O NO NO   
   Wind force (bft) 4 3 2 2 3 3 4   
      
      
   Long term, Thursday December 25, 2025 to Thursday January 1, 2026:   
   Initially almost dry with a high chance (80%) of (fairly) cold winter weather   
   and a   
   small chance (20%) of fairly mild weather. At the end of the period   
   the chance of (winter) precipitation increases to 20-30%.   
      
    * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * *    
      
   North Sea shipping forecast   
      
   Issued by KNMI at 08:36 UTC 181225.   
      
   Gale warnings:   
   Dover Thames Humber    
   south 8   
      
   German Bight Dogger    
   south to southwest 7   
      
      
      
   Synopsis:   
   low south of Iceland 954 moving slowly eastwards. associated trough over the   
   east of    
   the North Sea moving slowly east. second trough will reach the North Sea in   
   the    
   afternoon and evening.   
      
   Forecast valid Thursday 09:00 till Thursday 21:00 UTC:   
   Dover    
   south 5-6, increasing 7, possibly 8. occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to   
   good,    
   in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
   Thames Humber    
   south to southwest 5-6, increasing 6-7, later possibly 8. occasionally rain or    
   drizzle. moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
   German Bight    
   south to southwest 6-7, decreasing south 5-6, later increasing 7, possibly 8.    
   occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes   
   poor.   
      
   Dogger    
   southwest backing southeast 5-6, later increasing south to southwest 7,   
   possibly 8.    
   later rain or drizzle. moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
      
   Forecast valid Thursday 21:00 till Friday 09:00 UTC:   
   Dover    
   south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 5-6. first occasionally rain or   
   drizzle.   
    moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
   Thames    
   south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 5-6. especially first   
   occasionally rain    
   or drizzle. moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
   Humber    
   south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 5-6, later increasing 6-7.   
   especially    
   first occasionally rain or drizzle. moderate to good, in precipitation   
   sometimes    
   poor.   
      
   German Bight    
   south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 6-7. occasionally rain or   
   drizzle.    
   moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
   Dogger    
   south to southwest 7-8, decreasing southwest 6-7. first rain or drizzle, later   
   risk    
   of a shower. moderate to good, in precipitation sometimes poor.   
      
      
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