Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 27th January 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Quite mild across western Europe
Today
As the winds switch to the north, eastern parts of Europe will be turning much colder today but still mild in the west. Mostly dry and bright across the United Kingdom today. Sunny and dry as well across France with morning fog patches. An area of heavy rain will be across Germany with some light rain into Belgium. An area of snow and heavy snow showers will affect Russia into the Baltic States, Belarus, the Ukraine into the Czech Republic and Austria. In the afternoon snow showers then spread into Romania, the former Yugoslavia and into Bulgaria but some sunshine is expected as well, especially in the morning after a frosty start.
It continues fine and sunny for Spain, Portugal, the Balearics into Italy, much of Greece and Turkey but still cold across Turkey. Very cold across Scandinavia but it looks sunny except for a few snow showers around the western coasts of Norway. Later this gives way to rain. Temperatures across Finland may struggle to reach freezing with a brisk north west wind.
Monday
With high pressure centred over France, a fine day is expected across England, France and Spain with good sunny spells and feeling mild too. Some dense fog patches though through central France may be slow to clear. Dry and mostly sunny as well across The Low Counties. Heavier rain will fall across Norway and light rain spreads into Finland with some snow at first. Cloudy across Germany with outbreaks of light rain. In the afternoon it dries and brightens up across western Germany. An area of rain will lie from Sweden south into Denmark, eastern Germany across the former Czech Republic and moves into western Poland in the afternoon. Much of this will be quite light.
Eastern parts of Poland along with Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine will have a dry day with sunny spells but here it's much colder with a frosty morning. Expect some light rain and snow across Romania and Hungary today with a dry day for Bulgaria. Fine and sunny across Greece but very unsettled for Turkey with spells of heavy rain and heavy snow will affect the north. Very windy too across the eastern Mediterranean with gusts to gale force. Sunny and dry weather will prevail across the Alpine Region into Italy.