Rain in Greece & Italy Drier to the west seiten=3 abk=eusummary

Issued: 0530hrs Friday 4th April 2008
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

An unsettled day in the southeast, drier to the west

Friday
High pressure brings another mainly dry day to much of Spain and Portugal. The best of the sunshine always towards the west, and it will feel a little cool in the east. For France expect more cloud and some patchy drizzle across the north and west, but for the south and east it should be dry with sunny spells. rather cloudy for the Low Countries and northern Germany with some light rain or drizzle here. Mainly dry for the rest of Germany with some warm sunshine. Dry too for Poland with more sunshine to come here.
Showers are the order of the day over Austria and Hungary, with further showers and a brisk wind affecting Switzerland. To the north there will be some pleasant spring sunshine over the Baltic States, with more sunshine to come for Finland too. Cloud increasing in Sweden with rain here, the rain also spreading through Norway and Denmark, some of it heavy and bringing strong winds.

Saturday
For Saturday the weather looks set to stay fair across the whole of Spain and Portugal. More sunshine to come here, with the best of it to the west. Fine for many central and southern areas of France, whilst thicker cloud and some showery outbreaks of rain move into the north. Further showers moving southwards through the Low Countries and northern Germany, introducing cooler weather. Southern Germany should be staying mild with more sunshine here. Some showers across northern Poland, with the south dry and mild.
Austria, Hungary and Switzerland should all enjoy dry days. There will be some sunshine to come and it should be feeling mild here as well.
A better day for much of northern and central Italy where there will be some sunshine. Thicker cloud and some rain across southern parts of Italy. Low pressure for Greece bringing cloud and some showery rain here. mainly dry in Turkey in sunshine. Heavier rain across the south of Bulgaria and into Romania.
Cloud and rain affecting the Baltic States and Finland, with brighter weather and showers into Norway, Sweden and Denmark.