Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 10th January 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Rain spreading in across Iberia Friday, settled for eastern Europe but cold
Today
Continued windy with gales across northern parts of Europe. An area of heavy rain across Norway and the United Kingdom is expected to spread into northern parts of France in the afternoon. Dry for central and southern France with some sunshine in the south. Dry but rather cloudy across the Low Countries will rain in the evening. Mainly dry across Germany and Poland with sunny spells for Poland. Just a few showers for western parts of Iberia but mainly dry with good sunny spells for Spain into the Balearics, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Rain is expected across Sweden with sleet and snow across Finland. Continued dry today across the Baltic States into Belarus and Russia but cold.
High pressure across eastern Europe will give lots of dry weather to the Alpine Region into the former Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Friday
An area of rain will stretch form Finland and Sweden into Denmark, The Low Countries across England and across western France into Spain and this will be heavy in places. Much colder across England today with a dry day across Norway.
Heavy showers will affect southern parts of France with showers through the day across Italy as well. Scattered snow showers will fall across the Alps. The cold, settled weather persists across Russia, The Baltic States into Belarus, the Ukraine into Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. Scattered wintry showers are possible across parts of the former Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia. Cold but dry and sunny across Greece and Turkey today.