Issued: 0530hrs Monday 28th April 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Mostly settled and dry for Spain

Today
Quite warm across eastern Europe but a bit fresher in the west today. An area of heavy rain will stretch from Scotland into Norway then into Denmark, Holland, the Low Countries into Germany and central and southern France.
Expect sunshine and showers across England and northern France. Some light rain will reach northern Sweden while southern Sweden and Finland enjoys a fine, mostly sunny day. High pressure will also give Russia, The Baltic States, Belarus, Poland and the Ukraine a dry day of sunny spells. Dry as well across the former Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia with sunny skies. A few showers will affect the far north of Spain today but for much of Portugal and Spain it's a fine, sunny and warm day. Fine and warm as well into the Balearics into Italy. Lots of heavy showers will develop across Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey today.

Tuesday
An area of locally heavy rain will spill in across northern France, England and Wales today with a dry day for central and southern France with sunny spells. A belt of rain will also Norway into eastern Germany into the former Czech Republic and Austria. Showers are forecast across the Low Counties, Denmark and the Netherlands as well as the former Yugoslavia.
Another warm, dry and sunny day for Russia, The Baltic States into Poland while showers are forecast across the Ukraine into southern Belarus, Romania and northern Hungary. Greece sees a better day with sunny spells while further showers will fall across Turkey. An area of rain will move into the north west of Spain while Portugal, Spain and the Balearics stays fine and dry. Northern parts of Italy will have a few showers with the south dry and mostly sunny.