Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 14th January 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Mostly settled Monday
Today
Some rain for Scotland otherwise a drier, sunny day to come across the United Kingdom. Cold with gale to severe gales expected across Scandinavia. Just a few coastal snow showers for Norway. Very windy with a risk of heavy snow across Sweden and Finland. An area of mainly light rain will extend from Poland into the Baltic States, southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and central France. A fine, sunny day across Iberia into the Balearics, southern France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Still warmest in the western Mediterranean, rather chilly in the east.
Monday
Windy again across the UK and Scandinavia with gales. More rain sweeps in across The United Kingdom into Norway and here it looks heavy. Scattered showers will develop across Portugal with a few into Spain but sunny here too. With high pressure in control, much of mainland Europe looks fine and dry with good sunny spells with morning dense fog patches across Germany and the Balkans. A cold, frosty morning also across eastern parts of Europe. Fine, sunny and mild weather will stretch from the Balearics into Italy, Greece and Turkey.