* * * EUROPE FORECAST * * * 
   from: https://www.woeurope.eu/weather/reports/europ... 

   Europe forecast - December 09, 2024
   Unsettled south
   Chilly winds

   Issued: 0530hrs Monday 9th December 2024
   Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

   Drier for southern Scandinavia

   Monday
   Persistent rain and chilly northerly winds in northern Spain. Fair for
   many central and southern areas of Spain and Portugal. Some rain in
   east Spain and heavy showery bursts through the Balearics and across
   Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will have heavy showers in the west
   although drier in the east. Greece sees heavy, thundery showers, but
   drier over eastern coasts. Heavy showers too in western and southern
   Turkey.
   Windy and cold in France. Frequent showers, most along northern coasts
   and through southern areas. Further showers and windy, chilly weather
   in the Low Countries. Windy with heavy showers for Germany and Poland.
   More heavy showers or longer periods of rain in Hungary, Austria and
   Switzerland.
   Windy in Denmark, some showers in the east. Fair in most of the Baltic
   States, Finland will have some morning fog which will clear. Sweden and
   most of southern Norway will be dry with sunny spells. Windier in
   central and northern Norway, heavy rain here too.

   Tuesday
   Showery rain frequent in northern Spain and a few showers may affect
   Portugal, but central and southern Spain stay dry with some sun.
   Slow-moving thundery showers for the western Mediterranean, affecting
   the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia plus southwest Italy and Sicily.
   Drier in northern Italy. Rain also for western Greece and the Adriatic
   coastline.
   Chilly easterly winds prevail through central Europe. Fairly cloudy,
   but dry for most of France. Light showers possible for the Low
   Countries and parts of Germany. Areas of rain and hill snow for Czechia
   and southern Poland.
   Fair weather for southern Scandinavia with sunshine for Denmark,
   southern Sweden and Norway plus the Baltic states. Also fine but cold
   in northern Poland. Windier for northern Scandinavia, with frequent
   wintry showers for northern Norway, but mainly dry for Finland.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Prepared by the KNMI on Monday, December 9, 2024 at 12:31 am

Cloudy and quite cold at first. At the end of the week periods of sunshine with
evenings
light frost at night. Rain on Sunday.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Sunshine (%) 10 10 10 10 20 10 10
Precipitation probability (%) 50 20 10 10 20 50 50
Precipitation sum (mm) 0 0 0 0/1 0 0/2 0/5
Minimum temp. (gr. C) 5 5 3 2 2 -2 2
Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 6 6 5 6 5 4 6/9
Wind direction NO NO NO SW SE SW SW
Wind force (bft) 4 4 2 2 3 3 3


Long term, Monday December 16, 2024 to Monday December 23, 2024:
High (80%) chance of changeable weather. The temperature is usually above
later around the long-term average.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 07:58 UTC 091224.

Gale warnings:
all districts northeast 7


Synopsis:
high, 1044, over Scotland changing little.

Forecast valid Monday 09:00 till Monday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
northeast 5-6, soon increasing 6-7. occasionally light rain or a shower. good,
in 
precipitation possibly moderate.

Thames 
northeast 6-7, later decreasing 5-6. occasionally light rain or a shower. good,
in 
precipitation possibly moderate.

Humber 
northeast 6, occasionally 7. risk light rain. good, in precipitation possibly 
moderate.

German Bight 
northeast 5-6, in the southern part occasionally 7. good.

Dogger 
northeast 5-6, first occasionally 7. good.


Forecast valid Monday 21:00 till Tuesday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
northeast 5-6, first possibly 7. occasionally light rain or a shower. good, in 
precipitation possibly moderate.

Thames 
northeast 5-6. occasionally light rain or a shower. good, in precipitation
possibly 
moderate.

Humber 
northeast 5-6. good.

German Bight 
northeast 5-6, decreasing 4-5. good.

Dogger 
northeast 5-6, later decreasing 4-5. good.


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 * Origin: Postbus 7 (618:500/6)