Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 12th April 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Heavy rain across northern Spain, eastern Europe
Today
Another very warm day to come across Greece, Turkey, Hungary and Bulgaria today. Here it's a fine, summery day with long sunny spells. Lots of heavy showers across the United Kingdom and these will run across northern France into Belgium. Rain and showers will also affect northern Spain and western France.
Much of eastern France will be mostly sunny and dry. An area of heavy rain will stretch across Norway, Sweden into the Baltic States across Belarus into Romania, the former Czech Republic into the Alpine Region and northern Italy. Cold across Finland but dry and sunny. A day of sunshine and showers across Holland and Germany. Fine and dry across southern Spain into the Balearics and southern Italy. A fine, sunny and warm day for the former Yugoslavia.
Sunday
Further showers are expected across the United Kingdom. One area of rain will lie from Norway into Belgium, Holland, Denmark into northern Germany, northern France and northern Spain. The rain spreads into all of France in the afternoon. Another area of very heavy rain is expected across Finland, The Baltic States, western Russia and Belarus.
A dry day with sunny spells across Sweden, Poland, Romania and Hungary. Showers and rain will fall across the Alpine Region and northern Italy. Just a few showers for the former Yugoslavia today. Not quite as warm across eastern Mediterranean but dry and sunny across Greece and Turkey. Lots of sunshine today across southern Spain into the Balearics and the south of Italy.