Issued: 0530hrs Monday 5th March 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Rain moving east Monday

Today
Expect a blustery day of sunshine and showers for the United Kingdom, France and the Benelux Countries. An area of rain will lie across Norway, Sweden into Germany, Austria and Switzerland and this will move east into Poland and the Baltic States in the afternoon. Remaining cold across Finland with light snow in the east. A large area of fine, dry and sunny weather will extend from Spain across the Balearics into southern France, Italy and the Balkans.

Tuesday
An area of heavy rain and gusty winds will extend from Norway across Denmark, northern Germany, The Low Countries into northern France and northern Spain. Apart from a few scattered showers across northern Italy, it looks fine and dry from eastern Spain into southern France, Italy and through the Balkans. Chilly but dry and sunny into Turkey and Cyprus. Colder across Finland with a few wintry showers. Cold but dry into Poland and the Baltic States with a few patches of freezing fog.