Overview
- A short warm spell is arriving midweek with widespread sunshine after morning fog clears and daytime highs locally reaching about 22–24 °C, peaking on Friday.
- Forecast guidance now converges on a rapid temperature drop this weekend of roughly 8–12 °C as cold Scandi/polar air pushes south, raising the risk of cold nights and morning ground frost.
- The southwest is expected to see the wettest conditions with modelled totals commonly between 10 and 25 mm of rain while forecasts do not currently indicate extreme official heavy‑rain warnings.
- The snowline is forecast to fall to about 1,000–1,500 m so the first snow is likely on higher Alpine peaks and on the tallest Mittelgebirge, while lower terrain may see graupel or cold rain.
- Forecasters warn of locally dense morning and nighttime fog, fresh to strong gusts on the North Sea coast toward Friday and the weekend, and model uncertainty over how long the post‑weekend cold or a blocking Omega pattern will persist.