Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 29th April 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Warmest across eastern parts of the Med

Today
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.

Wednesday
With low pressure across the United Kingdom it's a chilly, unsettled day to come across England, France, The Low Countries and western parts of Germany with plenty of showers, some heavy merging into longer spells of rain. A number of showers to for the far north of Spain but fine and sunny for much of Iberia today. Dry with sunny spells to for eastern parts of Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. Light rain is expected across Norway with both Sweden and Finland to remain dry with sunny spells. For The Baltic States, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine it's more unsettled today with a risk of showers. Showers to will affect the Alpine Region and Slovenia.
Fine, sunny weather will extend from Spain into the Balearics into Italy, the former Yugoslavia into Greece and Turkey. A few showers are expected for Hungary and the former Czech Republic.