Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 15th January 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
More rain and wind for much of Europe Wednesday
Today
An area of heavy rain accompanied by strong gales will sweep in across the United Kingdom into France, northern Spain, Belgium, Holland and the far north west of Germany today. A fine, dry day for central and southern parts of Iberia with sunny spells. Milder and windy as well across Scandinavia with heavy rain for Norway but light rain across Sweden and Finland.
A dry day for the south of France and for much of Germany. Settled and dry too across Poland, Belarus, the Ukraine into Russia with sleety rain forecast for the Baltic States. It's dry across the Alpine Region into the former Czech Republic into Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia. Rain will move into the far north of Italy with central and southern areas fine and sunny. An area of rain will be moving across Turkey but dry and sunny today for Greece and Bulgaria.
Wednesday
Windy but mainly dry and colder across the United Kingdom today. Largely dry across France except for a few scattered showers. Milder but windy across Scandinavia with gales and heavy rain across Norway spreads east into Sweden and Finland. This area of rain will stretch from Scandinavia into Holland, The Baltic States into Germany and then into southern France. Over the Alpine Region this will fall as heavy snow. To the east it's a fine, dry but cold day for Poland, Belarus into Russia and the Ukraine. Windy and turning colder across Iberia with rain in the south of Spain clearing to showers. Rain is expected across the Balearics today with a band of heavy rain spreading into northern parts of Italy.
Just a few showers across the former Czech Republic with light rain across Greece. Fair and dry with high pressure over Hungary, Romania into Bulgaria and Turkey.