Heavy rain, gales western Europe Warm, sunny for Spain, Italy seiten=3 abk=eusummary
Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 4th March 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Rain moving east Monday
Today
Heavy rain accompanied by strong gale to severe gales will affect the United Kingdom, western France and Portugal. It looks to be a fine, dry and mostly sunny day for Spain, eastern France, Italy and up into Germany and the Low Countries. Cold across Scandinavia but mainly dry though some rain and snow will affect parts of Norway along with the Baltic States. Fair and dry as well across Austria, Switzerland into the Balkan region with an area of rain moving east across Turkey.
Monday
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 northern Italy and this will move east into Poland and the Baltic States in the afternoon. Remaining cold across Finland with light snow. A large area of fine, dry and sunny weather will extend from Spain across the Balearics into southern France, southern Italy and the Balkans.