Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 4th February 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Not as cold across Europe

Today
It becomes quite windy across western France and Iberia today but a bit milder too. Outbreaks of heavy rain will move into western parts of France, into Portugal and western parts of Spain. Staying fair and dry across eastern France and eastern Spain with a dry, sunny day for the Balearics. A few showers will affect central and southern Italy but dry in the north. For Belgium, Holland and much of Germany it looks dry with varying cloud and sunnier spells. Scattered snow showers are forecast across the Alpine Region with some light rain moving into southern areas of Poland. Outbreaks of rain will turn to snow as they spread in across Norway and Sweden. Sunnier across Finland with just a few wintry showers. Not quite so cold across Russia with snow showers and sunnier periods. Fine and dry weather prevails across the Baltic States with light snow pushing in across Belarus and the Ukraine. Unsettled and wet with rain across Greece but mainly fine and dry across Turkey into Hungary and Bulgaria.
Expect top temperatures of 6C in London, 5C for Brussels, 6C for Paris, 9C for Madrid, 13C in Rome, 10C in Bucharest, 19C in Athens, 2C in Warsaw, 3C in Berlin, -4C in Moscow and -1C for Stockholm.

Thursday
More heavy snow is expected to push into England and Wales today. Northern parts of France will see so light rain. A fair, dry and bright day to come across Belgium, Holland and Denmark. An area of heavy rain and showers will move into southern France and also across Portugal and Spain. This rain moves into the Balearics and then later into northern Italy with the south mainly dry. Lots of dry weather is expected across the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey into Bulgaria and Hungary. Not as cold today across eastern Europe. It will be dry for Poland, Belarus into Russia and the Baltic States. Some snow will affect the north of Norway and Sweden. Southern areas will be dry and sunny as will be much of Finland.