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

   Europe forecast - October 20, 2025
   Heavy rain France
   Windy and showery

   Issued: 0530hrs Monday 20th October 2025
   Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

   Mild in eastern Europe

   Monday
   Patchy showery rain moving across Spain from the west, tending to fade
   to give some sun, best in the south of Spain and Portugal. A rather
   cloudy but dry for the Balearics. Scattered showers for Sardinia and
   Corsica, some on the heavy side. Heavy showers for north Italy, drier
   further south. Some heavy rain for central and southern Greece. A
   mostly dry and sunny day for Turkiye. Cyprus will see a rather sunny
   day.
   Plenty of showers for France, merging into areas of heavy rain. Heavy
   showers for the Low Countries, while periods of rain push into Denmark.
   A band of rain spreads east over Germany, but with mostly dry
   conditions expected for Poland. Some rain for far eastern parts of
   Ukraine, but dry sunny further west. A band of rain arrives over
   Switzerland and Austria through the day. Cloudy but mostly dry over
   Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, while sunny conditions are expected over
   Romania. Mostly cloudy but dry for the Balkans.
   A mostly dry but cloudy day for Norway and Sweden but some rain
   expected in south later. Finland will see some wintry showers in north.
   The Baltic States as well as Belarus will see a dry and bright day.

   Tuesday
   Unsettled across south and western Europe with areas of heavy rain and
   showers. Persistent rain in north Portugal and northwest Spain. Wet
   across central and southwestern France, showery toward the north of
   France. Drier across southern Spain, the Balearics and the far south of
   France. Showers for Corsica and Sardinia. Some heavy bursts of rain
   develop for central Italy into Slovenia and Croatia. Scattered showers
   for Greece and southwest Turkiye, some heavy.
   Showery conditions and fresh winds for the Low Countries, northern
   Germany and Denmark. Drier for eastern Germany, Czechia and Poland,
   fairly mild over eastern Europe with southerly winds. Some rain into
   the western Alps, drier for east of Austria into Hungary.
   Strong southerly winds and rain into southern Norway, showers into
   southern Sweden. Patchy rain extends into northern Scandinavia, but
   much of Finland and the Baltic states will be largely dry and mild
   southerly air wafts northwards here.

 * * * THE NETHERLANDS FORECAST * * * 

Expectation (medium) long term

Prepared by the KNMI on Monday, October 20, 2025 at 4:48 am

Changeable weather, rain from time to time and sometimes a lot of wind.
Especially on
There is a chance of (very) heavy wind gusts on Thursday and Friday. The
temperatures are first
around the long-term average, lower temperatures from Friday.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Sunshine (%) 30 30 40 20 20 30 20
Precipitation probability (%) 80 80 40 80 90 80 90
Precipitation sum (mm) 1/5 1/6 0/2 5/15 2/9 2/6 4/8
Minimum temp. (gr. C) 11 11 10 10/13 9/13 8 5
Afternoon temp. (gr. C) 16 16 16 13/17 13 12 11
Wind direction S SW SW SW SW SW W W
Wind force (bft) 4 4 3 5 5 3 3


Long term, Monday October 27, 2025 to Monday November 3, 2025:
Gradually less changeable, the chance of precipitation drops to about 50%. The
temperature rises again to values around or slightly above long-term
average.

 * * * NORTH SEA FORECAST * * * 

North Sea shipping forecast

Issued by KNMI at 07:16 UTC 201025.

Gale warnings:
Dover 
southwest 8

German Bight 
south to southeast 7

Thames 
south 7

other districts:
no warning


Synopsis:
Low, 982, southwest of Wales moves via Texel towards the German Bight.
Associated 
troughs will move northeastwards across the North Sea.

Forecast valid Monday 09:00 till Monday 21:00 UTC:
Dover 
south 5-6, increasing 6-7, later veering southwest, in the southern part
possibly 8. 
showers, especially later risk of thunderstorms. good, in precipitation moderate
to 
poor.

Thames 
south 5-6, later occasionally 7. showers, especially later risk of
thunderstorms. 
good, in precipitation moderate to poor.

Humber 
south 4-5, soon increasing 5-6. showers, especially later risk of thunderstorms.

good, in precipitation moderate to poor.

German Bight 
south to southeast 5-6, first in the northern part possibly 7. especially first
rain 
or drizzle, later in the western part showers with risk of thunderstorms. good,
in 
precipitation moderate to poor.

Dogger 
south 4-5, first in the northeastern part 5-6, later backing southeast and in
the 
western part decreasing 2-3. showers, later risk of thunderstorms. good, in 
precipitation moderate to poor, first in the western part risk of fog.


Forecast valid Monday 21:00 till Tuesday 09:00 UTC:
Dover 
west to southwest 6-7, soon decreasing 5-6. showers with risk of thunderstorms.
good,
 in precipitation moderate to poor.

Thames 
south 5-6, first occasionally 7, soon veering west. showers with risk of 
thunderstorms. good, in precipitation moderate to poor.

Humber 
south 5-6, especially first in the western part 3-4, soon from the west veering
west.
 showers with risk of thunderstorms. good, in precipitation moderate to poor.

German Bight 
south to southeast 5-6, later in the southern part veering southwest, possibly
7. 
showers with risk of thunderstorms. good, in precipitation moderate to poor.

Dogger 
southeast 4-5, soon from the west decreasing variable 1-3, later increasing west
3-5.
 showers with risk of thunderstorms. good, in precipitation moderate to poor.


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