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

   Europe forecast - December 27, 2024
   Foggy north coast
   Sun central, clouds east

   Issued: 0530hrs Friday 27th December 2024
   Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

   Calm winds facilitate fog along the north coasts overnight. Where out
   of fog, many will see plentiful sun. Clouds will linger in the north
   and far east.

   Friday
   Patchy morning clouds give way to abundant sunshine in Iberia and
   western Mediterranean. Lingering showers in Italy soon clearing for
   sunshine as well. Showers and breeze continue in the eastern
   Mediterranean, though beginning to ease. Sun spells around the Aegean
   between showers.
   Fog banks likely along the Continent's north coast, some inland as
   well. Where out of fog, a fine day with sun in France, Germany, and the
   Low Countries. Clouds encroach further east in Poland and Czechia,
   sunnier in Hungary and Croatia and the Balkans. Clouds and snow into
   Romania and Bulgaria, remaining dry and cloudy further north. Winds
   quite calm in most places.
   Frequent showers continue on the west coasts of Scotland and Norway.
   Some isolated drizzly showers and cloudy into Denmark and Sweden. Winds
   rather calm in southern Scandinavia. Drier though still cloudy in the
   Baltics. Finland brighter but breezier.

   Saturday
   Scattered clouds in Spain and Portugal soon clearing. Widely sunny
   across the Mediterranean and Italy, a few stray clouds here and there.
   Much of Greece is fair, though breezy with showers again in the Aegean
   and far east Mediterranean. Heavy showers, some thundery, onto Turkey's
   southern coast.
   Calm winds rebuild fog overnight across the Continent's north coast,
   some inland as well. Where clear of fog, a fine sunny day for France,
   Germany, and the Alpine Countries. Mostly sunny eastward in Hungary,
   Romania, and south towards Greece. Cloudier in Poland, Ukraine, and
   Belarus. Mostly dry here though an isolated drizzle or sleet shower is
   possible.
   Low pressure in the far north pushes snow across Norway's west coast.
   Widely cloudy and breezy across Scandinavia, isolated snow showers
   breaking across Sweden and Finland. Denmark and the Baltics will be
   cloudy as well with isolated drizzle patches.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Prepared by the KNMI on Friday, December 27, 2024 at 4:59 am

Calm, cloudy and most dry, with temperatures around the long-term average.
Monday will be a mild day. A transition to one around the turn of the year
changeable, mild and sometimes stormy weather. There is a small one on Thursday
chance of heavy wind gusts in the coastal provinces.

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
Sunshine (%) 10 10 10 10 10 10 20
Precipitation probability (%) 10 10 30 30 70 70 80
Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0 0/7 1/11 2/11
Minimum temp. (gr. C) 2 2 3 5 2/6 4 2/5
Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 4 5 9 9 9 7/10 7/11
Wind direction SE SW SW SW SW SW SW SW
Wind force (bft) 1 2 3 4 4 3 5


Long term, Friday January 3, 2025 to Friday January 10, 2025:
Initially there is a good chance of a continuation of the soft, wet,
cloudy and possibly stormy weather. Later in the period the chance of a
colder weather (approximately 50%); with frost at night, approximately 30% chance of
winter precipitation but also more space for the sun.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 07:36 UTC 271224.

Gale warnings:
There are no warnings.


Synopsis:
high, 1039, over central Europe remains fairly stationary. associated ridge over the 
Netherlands is declining.

Forecast valid Friday 09:00 till Friday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
mainly southeast 1-3. moderate to poor, locally fog.

Thames 
mainly south 1-3. moderate to poor, locally fog.

Humber 
south to southwest 2-3, occasionally 4. moderate to poor, locally fog.

German Bight 
southwest 2-3, occasionally 4. moderate to poor, in the South locally fog.

Dogger 
southwest 2-3, occasionally 4. moderate to poor, risk fog.


Forecast valid Friday 21:00 till Saturday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
mainly south 1-3. moderate to poor, risk fog.

Thames 
southwest 1-3. moderate to poor, risk fog.

Humber 
southwest 2-3. moderate to poor, risk fog.

German Bight Dogger 
southwest 3-4. moderate to poor, risk fog.


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