Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 4th November 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Warmest and sunniest across Iberia
Today
High pressure centred over England will give England, France and The Low Countries a dry day with a few sunny spells but expect lots of low cloudiness. Dry too for Germany with the south sunny and the north more cloudy. Cold across Scandinavia with a few snow showers around the western coast of Norway, otherwise the rest of Norway along with Sweden and Finland look dry with crisp sunshine.
Scattered showers are forecast across Corsica,, Sardinia and for the far south of Italy. Much of Italy though looks fine and sunny as does Portugal, Spain and the Balearics. Lots of sunshine too for the Alpine Region. Cold across Poland, The Baltic Sates into Russia with patchy sleet and snow. Largely dry for the former Czech Republic with a number of showers across Greece today but some sunshine too. Rain is expected for Hungary with Bulgaria and Turkey fair and dry.
Monday
Very cold air is sweeping south from Scandinavia into all of eastern Europe through the day. An area of rain will lie across Finland into Sweden and England. The rain looks heavy across Norway. After a dry day for Finland, this rain will move in later in the day and will turn to snow for a time.
A large area of settled, dry weather will prevail across much of central Europe so fair, dry and bright with morning fog patches for France, Germany, The Alpine Region and Poland along with the former Czech Republic. Bitterly cold but sunny for The Baltic States and Russia today. Sunny and pleasantly warm into Spain and the Balearics. A dry day too across Italy with lots of showers forecast for Greece and Turkey.