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

   Europe forecast - December 25, 2024
   Unsettled eastern Mediterranean
   Sunny central Europe

   Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 25th December 2024
   Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

   High pressure and sun in Central Europe. Breezy with drizzle and rain
   in the north. East Mediterranean remains unsettled.

   Christmas Day Wednesday
   Dry and sunny for the Iberia and southern France. Mostly sunny with
   showery spells in the Balearics, Sardinia and Corsica. Unsettled for
   southern Italy with risk of gales. Greece and Trkiye experience heavy
   showers, some thundery in the Aegean Sea and Trkiye's south coast.
   North France will see thick cloud which extends into the British Isles.
   Cloudy and isolated drizzle for the Low Counties, Germany, Denmark,
   Sweden and Poland. Central areas near the Alps will see mostly sunny
   conditions. Clouds east and south of Hungary with rain and snow inland
   in the Balkans and Romania. Mostly dry but still cloudy in Ukraine and
   Belarus.
   Patches of brightness and drizzle in the Baltic states. Breezy here
   too. Similar conditions into Finland. Norway sees persistent breezy
   rain on the west coast with occasional sun spells inland towards
   Sweden.

   Boxing Day Thursday
   Mostly sunny with occasional cloud patches in Iberia. Scattered clouds
   east into the Mediterranean with unsettled conditions remaining in
   southern Italy and east. Thundery showers continuing in southern Greece
   and Trkiye.
   Sun spreads into France and Central Germany giving central Europe a
   fine day. Sun extends east across the alps towards Slovakia, Hungary,
   northern Croatia, and northern Romania. Clouds south of here with
   patchy showers.
   Clouds persist along the shores of the North and Baltic Seas, mostly
   dry. Northeastern Europe remains overcast though quite dry as well.
   Showers turn snowy on Norway's west coast, quite windy further north.
   Sun in and out for Sweden and Finland, more consistently sunny north.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Prepared by the KNMI on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 5:28 am

Calm, cloudy and most dry. Possibly something from Sunday, especially in the south
room for the sun and a chance of fog during the night and morning. There is little wind.
Temperatures are mainly above the long-term average. From the
New Year's Eve is a transition to changeable and possibly turbulent weather.

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue
Sunshine (%) 10 10 10 20 30 20 10
Precipitation probability (%) 30 20 20 20 30 30 30
Precipitation sum (mm) 0/1 0/1 0 0 0/1 0/1 0/7
Minimum temp. (gr. C) 7 7 6 3/6 4 4 3/6
Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 11 10 9 7 9 8 9
Wind direction SW SE SE SW SW SW SW SW
Wind force (bft) 2 2 2 3 2 3 4


Long term, Wednesday January 1, 2025 to Wednesday January 8, 2025:
High chance (70%) of a continuation of the soft, changeable and possible
stormy weather. There is also a small chance (30%) of a colder/winter weather
weather type, with a chance of winter showers and frost at night.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 08:29 UTC 251224.

Gale warnings:
There are no warnings.


Synopsis:
High, 1040, over central Europe remains fairly stationary. Trough over Germany 
remains fairly stationary.

Forecast valid Wednesday 09:00 till Wednesday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
west to southwest 2-3, later variable 1-3. moderate to poor, increasing moderate to 
good.

Thames 
west to southwest 3-4, decreasing 2-3. moderate to poor, locally fog.

Humber 
west to southwest 3-4. moderate to poor, locally fog.

German Bight Dogger 
west to southwest 3-4. good, locally moderate to poor and risk fog.


Forecast valid Wednesday 21:00 till Thursday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
variable 1-3. moderate to good.

Thames 
mainly southwest 2-3. good, first locally moderate to poor and risk fog.

Humber German Bight 
southwest 3-4. good, first locally moderate to poor and risk fog.

Dogger 
southwest 3-4. good.


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