Issued: 0530hrs Monday 2nd February 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Dry across Scandinavia

Today
A bitterly cold wind will be blowing across the United Kingdom and much of eastern Europe and Scandinavia today. Outbreaks of snow are forecast across England with snow also across eastern Germany and it looks heavy across Austria and Switzerland. There is a risk of snow across Belgium then rain in the afternoon. Light snow is also forecast for Holland and Denmark. Some heavy showers will affect Portugal today. Areas of heavy rain will affect Spain, France and the northern half of Italy with snow over the hills of northern Italy. Morning rain should clear the Balearics then expect a few showers. Bitterly cold across Scandinavia and much of eastern Europe with sub zero maximum temperatures. It does look dry and sunny though across Norway, Sweden, Finland and across the Baltic States into Russia with sunny skies and a few freezing fog patches and a severe frost. Dry and well across much of Poland, Belarus, the Ukraine and Romania except for a few snow flurries. Much of Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey should be fair and dry.
Expect top temperatures of 3C in London, 2C for Brussels, 3C for Paris, 5C for Madrid, 10C in Rome, 4C in Bucharest, 12C in Athens, 1C in Warsaw, 0C in Berlin, -10C in Moscow and -2C for Stockholm.

Tuesday
Still some snow across western England and across into Belgium into eastern parts of France today. This weakens an slips up into Holland, Denmark and north east Germany in the afternoon. Fair and dry across western France with heavy rain and sleet in the south east. Windy today with heavy rain pushing into Portugal and western Spain. A dry day to come across the Balearics with rain for northern Italy and the former Yugoslavia. It stays dry across southern Italy with just a few showers across Greece and Hungary. Heavy snow showers will persist over the Alpine Region today. It stays largely dry across much of Scandinavia today but some snow will edge into southern Norway and Sweden in the evening. An area of rain, sleet and snow moves in across Poland today but dry and very cold across Russia and the Baltic States.