Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 8th January 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Mildest in the west, still cold for eastern Europe
Today
Windy with gales accompanied by heavy rain will spill in across the United Kingdom today. A dry day in store for France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with sunnier spells. Outbreaks of light rain and snow will affect Poland today with light snow also for Sweden, Finland into the Baltic States, the Ukraine and Belarus. Continued cold but sunny across Russia today.
Fair and dry across much of Portugal and Spain today though some patchy light rain is expected across northern Spain. Sunny, dry weather will prevail from the Balearics eastward into Italy, the former Yugoslavia into Greece and Turkey. Mostly dry and cold across the Alpine Region, the former Czech Republic into Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Wednesday
Continued windy across northern Britain as gales sweep east into Scandinavia. Outbreaks of heavy rain will be spreading into Norway, Sweden and Finland where it will be preceded by snow. This area of rain will also stretch across northern parts of Poland and Germany, through Denmark into Holland, Belgium and northern parts of France. A narrow belt of rain will also lie from southern France into central parts of Spain and Portugal with dry, sunnier weather to the north and south. Colder across the United Kingdom with sunny spells and showers in the west. Cold across Austria and Switzerland with sunny spells and a few snow showers.
High pressure keeps southern parts of Germany and Poland along with the Baltic States, Belarus and Russia dry but cold. Dry and sunny weather will prevail across the Balearics into Italy, Greece and Turkey. Cold and rather cloudy across the former Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary with a few snow flurries.