Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 24th November 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Snow for southern Germany

Today
Increasingly windy with an area of rain across Norway into the United Kingdom. This will be heavy across Norway. Lighter rain edge's into Sweden in the afternoon with a cold but sunny day across Finland. Northern parts of France will also be dry with sunny spells while some patchy rain affect the south. Outbreaks of rain will fall across southern parts of Germany and northern Italy with snow over the Alpine Region.
Rain and sleet is expected across the former Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia. Fine and dry across northern parts of Germany, The Low Countries into Denmark and northern Poland. Rain is forecast for southern Poland with rain too across The Baltic States.
Heavy, thundery rain will move into southern parts of Spain with a few showers on the north coast as well. Central areas will be fair and dry. Showers too for the Balearics and southern parts of Italy while a fine, dry day is expected for Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Sunday
Windy across Scandinavia and it turns colder from the west with rain clearing Finland and Sweden. Sleet showers will affect western parts of Norway. Colder too across the United Kingdom and northern parts of France but mainly dry. An area of rain is expected through central France with the south sunny. Scattered showers will affect the Low Countries and Denmark. There is a risk of snow across southern Germany, Austria and the former Czech Republic. Outbreaks of rain are forecast for northern Germany and across Poland into Belarus and Russia it will be mixed with sleet and snow. A band of heavy rain will stretch from the former Yugoslavia through central Italy to the Balearics.
Outbreaks of snow will spread into northern parts of Hungry with wintry showers for Romania. A fine, dry and sunny day across Iberia today. Chilly but dry and well into Turkey and Greece.