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

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

   Europe forecast - April 17, 2025
   Showery Portugal
   Rain central Europe

   Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 17th April 2024
   Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

   Rain in central Europe with heavy showers in Portugal

   Thursday
   A showery day for Portugal. Scattered afternoon shower for Spain. Some
   persistent rain for eastern France, brighter elsewhere. Some afternoon
   showers for the British Isles. Patchy light rain is expected for the
   Low Countries and western Germany. Eastern parts and Poland will see a
   rather cloudy but dry day. A few showers for Denmark. Some rain for
   southern Norway, but drier further north. Sweden and Finland will see a
   mostly dry and bright day. Dry with good sunny spells and very mild for
   the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine.
   Some heavy rain and snow on the mountains for Switzerland. Outbreaks of
   rain for Austria and Hungary, possibly turning heavy later in the day.
   A cloudy but rather dry for Czechia and Slovakia. Mostly cloudy for the
   Balkans with outbreaks of rain in west.
   Mostly dry and bright for the Balearics, while heavy showers are
   expected for Sardinia and Corsica as well as norther and central parts
   of Italy. A few showers for western Greece. Sunny for Turkey and
   Cyprus.

   Friday
   A wet day in central and northern Spain as well as Portugal. Fair in
   eastern Spain. The Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia will be dry with
   sunny spells. Showers will be forming in Italy, mainly in the east.
   Greece should be dry with sunny spells. Staying fair in Turkey with
   more sunshine here.
   Cloud and some rain in the far west of France whilst central and
   eastern areas are dry. The Low Countries will be bright and dry with
   sunny spells. Rain in much of Germany, this extending to Poland where
   it will be heavy. More rain and showers across Austria, Hungary and
   Switzerland.
   Denmark will be cloudy but mostly dry. Broken cloud and some brightness
   for the Baltic States. Finland will have cloud and outbreaks of rain.
   Light rain in eastern Sweden but drier in the west and north. Norway
   will be dry and bright in the south but wetter and cloudier in central
   and northern areas with snow showers here.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Dericated by the KNMI on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 4.37 am

Slightly changeable with occasional sun. Gradually somewhat higher
maximum temperatures.

Do vr Za so ma di wo
Sunshine (%) 20 20 30 20 30 30 30
Precipitation probability (%) 40 30 20 30 50 40 60
Precipitation sum (mm) 0/3 0/2 0/1 0/1 1/5 0/3 0/2
Minimum temp. (Gr. C) 8 7 5 5 8 8 8
Afternoon temp. (Gr. C) 12 13 14 17 17 17 16/19
Wind direction NW n NW No Z Z NO
Wind force (BFT) 3 3 2 3 2 2 2


Long term, Thursday 24 April 2025 to Thursday 1 May 2025:
Slightly changeable with daily precipitation opportunities of around 30%. Also occasionally sun.
The temperature forecast is quite insecure, the greatest chance of temperatures is
Around the long -term average.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 06:46 UTC 170425.

Gale warnings:
There are no warnings.


Synopsis:
Weak high, 1013, over the southern part of the North Sea is fairly stationary. 
Associated ridge is gradually building over the Netherlands.

Forecast valid Thursday 09:00 till Thursday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
mainly northeast 2-4. good.

Thames 
mainly northwest 2-3, soon variable 1-3. good.

Humber 
west 3-4, soon decreasing 2-3, gradually variable 1-3. good.

German Bight 
mainly south 2-3, veering mainly west, in the east in the coastal area northwest 4-5,
 possibly sometimes 6. especially first in the eastern part light rain. good, in 
precipitation possibly moderate.

Dogger 
southwest 3-4, first in the western part 4-5, decreasing 2-3. good.


Forecast valid Thursday 21:00 till Friday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
mainly southeast 2-4, increasing 3-5. good.

Thames 
variable 1-3, later in the western part increasing east 3-4. good.

Humber 
variable 1-3, later in the western part increasing southeast 3-4. good.

German Bight 
northwest 2-3, soon increasing 3-4, in the east in the coastal area 4-5, later in 
the western part decreasing north 2-3. in the east in the coastal area periods of 
rain. good, moderate in precipitation.

Dogger 
mainly west 2-3, veering mainly northeast. good.


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

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