MSGID: 2:280/2050 694fbc42   
    * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * *    
      from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm    
      
      Europe forecast - December 27, 2025   
      Gales northeast   
      Wet southwest   
      
      Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 27th December 2025   
      Duty forecaster: Dan Graves   
      
      Mostly fine weather over the central continent though breezy for most.   
      
      Saturday   
      Heavy rain in southern Spain and Portugal, brighter and drier north.   
      Rain in northeast Spain as well, this rain extending across the   
      Balearics and Sardinia. Drier and increasingly bright in Corsica and   
      Italy. Similarly sunny and fine for the Balkan States and Greece, just   
      some patchy rain in the Aegean Sea and the southwest cost. Fine in   
      western Türkiye, snow in the mountains central and east.   
      A bright, breezy day across most of central and western Europe. Cloud   
      increasingly drifts into northern parts of the Netherlands and Germany,   
      a generally cloudier and windier day in Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine.   
      Patchy snow in eastern Poland later in the day, risk of this snow   
      becoming more widespread in Belarus. Dry with sunny spells in Romania   
      and Bulgaria.   
      Widely windy across northeastern Europe with gales in Scandinavia, risk   
      severe gales on western coasts. Fine and bright in southern Norway,   
      Denmark, and much of Sweden. Frequent snow showers drift into Norway's   
      west coast, many passing into northwestern Sweden as well. Often   
      snowing in the north in Finland, drier south for a time, but outbreaks   
      of snow forming here too. Some snow in the Baltics, mostly Estonia and   
      Latvia.   
      
      Sunday   
      More rain in southern and eastern Iberia, as well as over the   
      Balearics. Only scattered rain over Sardinia. Fine for Corsica and   
      Italy. Fine too in the Balkan States, some more cloud and wind than the   
      day prior. Greece will be mostly sunny, as well as west and south   
      Türkiye, though some rain and snow arriving in norther Türkiye as the   
      day goes.   
      France stays mostly bright, similarly bright across Switzerland and   
      Austria, though quite windy across the mountains. Mixed cloud and sun   
      for the Low Countries and Germany. Also bright but windier in Czechia   
      and Hungary, more cloud with strong wind in Poland and Slovakia. Very   
      windy with snow in Belarus and Ukraine, this reaching into Romania too.   
      Drier with bright spells in Bulgaria.   
      More wind in the northeast, strongest in the Baltic States as well as   
      northwest Norway. More snow showers into northwest Norway and Sweden,   
      dry and bright with sunny bursts in the south. More dry sunshine for   
      Denmark as well. Finland sees mixed cloud and sun with outbreaks of   
      snow, some rain and snow in the Baltic States as well.   
      
    * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * *    
      
   Expectation (medium) long term   
      
   Prepared by the KNMI on Saturday, December 27, 2025 at 4:20 am   
      
   First chance of fog and frost at night. Then rising temperatures, more wind   
   and cloudy and changeable from New Year's Day. The precipitation can sometimes   
   be wintery   
   have character.   
      
   Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri   
   Sunshine (%) 30 30 20 30 10 10 10   
   Precipitation probability (%) 10 10 10 20 50 60 60   
   Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0 1/2 1/4 2/9   
   Minimum temp. (gr. C) -3 -1 -4 0 1 1 1/4   
   Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 4 2 5 6 7 6 6   
   Wind direction NE O W NW NW W W   
   Wind force (bft) 2 2 3 3 4 4 3   
      
      
   Long term, Saturday January 3, 2026 to Saturday January 10, 2026:   
   Persistently changeable with a small chance of winter precipitation.   
   Maximum temperatures are probably around or just around the long-term average   
   below that with a 20-30% chance of frost in the nights.   
      
    * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * *    
      
   North Sea shipping forecast   
      
   Issued by KNMI at 07:12 UTC 271225.   
      
   Gale warnings:   
   German Bight    
   north 7   
      
   Dover    
   northeast 7   
      
   other districts:   
   no warning   
      
      
   Synopsis:   
   high 1047 northwest of Scotland changing little. associated ridge towards   
   Germany is    
   slowly moving southwest.   
      
   Forecast valid Saturday 09:00 till Saturday 21:00 UTC:   
   Dover    
   northeast 5-6, for a time 7. good.   
      
   Thames    
   northeast 5-6, soon decreasing 4-5. good, first in the coastal area possibly    
   moderate.   
      
   Humber    
   northeast 4-5. good.   
      
   German Bight    
   north 4-5, soon in the northern part increasing 6-7, later in the eastern part    
   decreasing northeast 3-4. good.   
      
   Dogger    
   north 4-5, increasing 5-6. good.   
      
      
   Forecast valid Saturday 21:00 till Sunday 09:00 UTC:   
   Dover    
   east to northeast 5-6, decreasing 4-5. good.   
      
   Thames    
   east to northeast 4-5, decreasing 3-4. good.   
      
   Humber    
   northeast 4-5, decreasing 3-4. good.   
      
   German Bight    
   northeast 3-4, first in the northwestern part north 5-6, decreasing variable   
   1-3.    
   good.   
      
   Dogger    
   north to northeast 5-6, decreasing 3-4. good.   
      
      
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