Subj : forecast Europe and North Sea To : All From : Postbus 7 Date : Tue Dec 23 2025 12:01 pm * * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europe-forecast.htm Europe forecast - December 23, 2025 Wet southern Europe Cold, windy north Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 23rd December 2025 Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling Wet southern Europe, cold but drier north and windy in places Tuesday Often raining across Iberia, some bright spells breaking out later. Showery across the central Mediterranean, the rain frequent and heavy in central and west Italy. Showery rain will similarly drift into the Balkan States from the Adriatic Sea. Dry in Greece at first with sunny spells, then heavy rain arrives in the west. Dry in west Türkiye, rainy in central areas. More showery rain in the south of France, fine to the north with bright spells. More dry weather for the Low Countries and Germany but cloudy with a cold easterly wind. Mostly dry and cloudy in Poland and Czechia too but with isolated pockets of sleet/snow. Dry with bright spells in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. A cool easterly blows across Denmark and southern Sweden, some patchy rain and snow in eastern areas. Largely dry and cloudy again for Scandinavia, some morning snow in northern Finland. Cold in the Baltic States, bright or sunny in Latvia and Lithuania. Wednesday Showery rain in northern Spain, fair for most areas and in Portugal too. Heavy periods of rain reaching the Balearics. Corsica and Sardinia will be wet with heavy periods of rain too. More rain Italy and again that will be heavy. Greece will be wet and heavy. More rain in western Turkey but dry in central and eastern areas. String winds and cold in France, rain in eastern and southern France. The rest of the country will be dry with sunny spells. More sunny spells for the Low Countries. Germany and Poland will be mostly dry. Cloudy in Hungary whilst Austria and Switzerland will be wet with heavy periods of rain. Fair through Denmark and cold too. The Baltic States will be dry and fair. Windy with broken cloud in Finland. Dry in Sweden with sunny spells in the south. Windy in the north. Norway will be fair to the south. Windy and wet in the north with a risk of gales. * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * Expectation (medium) long term Prepared by the KNMI on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 at 4:49 am Sunny, dry and maximum temperatures around freezing point on Christmas Day. Then gradually more clouds and maximum temperatures that slowly rise and after weekend around the long-term average. Sunday chance (possibly persistent) fog. It freezes slightly at night. It stays dry. Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Sunshine (%) 10 70 80 70 50 20 20 Precipitation probability (%) 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minimum temp. (gr. C) 2 0 -4 -4 -3 -1 -2/1 Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 5 3 0 2 3 4 6 Wind direction NO NO NO NO NO NO NW Wind force (bft) 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 Long term, Tuesday December 30, 2025 to Tuesday January 6, 2026: Maximum temperatures around the long-term average and 40-50% chance of precipitation. * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * North Sea shipping forecast Issued by KNMI at 07:19 UTC 231225. Gale warnings: German Bight east to southeast 7 Humber east 7 other districts: no warning Synopsis: High, 1036, over Scandinavia moving to the northern part of the North Sea. Forecast valid Tuesday 09:00 till Tuesday 21:00 UTC: Dover east to northeast 5-6. good. Thames east 5-6. good. Humber east 5-6, later in the eastern part possibly 7. good. German Bight east to southeast 5-6, temporary increasing 6-7. good. Dogger east to southeast 5-6. good. Forecast valid Tuesday 21:00 till Wednesday 09:00 UTC: Dover east to northeast 5-6, later 6-7. good. Thames east 5-6, later increasing 6-7. good. Humber east 5-6, in the eastern part possibly 7. good. German Bight east 5-6, in the northern part decreasing east to northeast 4-5. good. Dogger east to southeast 5-6, decreasing east 4-5. good. --- * Origin: Postbus 7 (21:1/146) .