Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 24th April 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Mostly settled and dry for Friday
Today
An area of moderate to heavy rain clears the United Kingdom in the morning and moves into northern France and then Belgium. Scattered showers are expected across eastern France and western Germany. Fine and sunny across southern France and eastern Germany today.
High pressure in the east will give another fine sunny day for all of Scandinavia, Russia, the Baltic States, Poland, Romania, Belarus and the former Czech Republic. Quite a warm, sunny day to come across Portugal, Spain and the Balearics. A showery day to come for Italy with a few sunny spells too. Scattered showers will develop across the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Hungary. For Greece and Turkey it will be another warm day with long sunny spells.
Friday
More rain and drizzle will spread into the United Kingdom today. Lots of fine weather though for western parts of Europe as high pressure builds. Mostly sunny and pleasantly warm across France, Portugal and Spain. Dry with sunny spells too for western Germany.
An area of showery rain will affect eastern Germany, Poland, Romania, the former Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia today. A few showers to come for western parts of Norway with eastern Norway, Sweden and Finland staying dry and sunny. It also remains dry and sunny across the Baltic States, Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine with some morning fog patches to clear.
A fine, warm day across Turkey and eastern Greece while occasional showers are likely across western Greece. A better day to come across Italy with long sunny spells.