Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 6th April 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Heavy rain moving into the Balearics
Today
Colder air will be spilling in across Europe from the north. Scattered showers will become more wintry across the United Kingdom, northern France, The Low Countries and parts of Germany. Rain showers will develop across the rest of France with some heavy snow showers for the Alpine Region. Breezy and cold across Scandinavia with some sunshine but with occasional wintry showers across Norway, Sweden and northern Finland. A band of rain will lie from the Baltic States, Belarus, the Ukraine, Romania into Hungary which will be heavy in places.
Continued sunny, warm and dry across Portugal, Spain and the Balearics into southern France. Largely dry across Italy with a few widely scattered showers. A better day for Bulgaria, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and Greece with a dry day to come with sunny spells. Very unsettled across Turkey with heavy showers and rain.
Monday
Cold and breezy across the United Kingdom and The Low Countries with showers of sleet, rain and snow. A lot of cloud across Germany, Poland and the former Czech Republic with some rain, sleet and snow and some brighter spells. Apart from a few showers along the northern coast of France, it's a dry day with sunny spells. Outbreaks of heavy rain are forecast to spread across Portugal and Spain today with a few showers for the Balearics. Fine and sunny today across Italy and the Alpine Region. Spells of rain will affect Romania, Hungary and the former Yugoslav Republic.
A dry, mostly sunny day across Bulgaria, Greece and much of Turkey. An area of moderate to heavy rain will lie across southern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland with rain as well across The Baltic States into Belarus and the Ukraine. Sunny across Russia with a dry day to come.