Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 3rd February 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Milder across western Europe later
Today
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.
Expect top temperatures of 4C in London, 4C for Brussels, 2C for Paris, 7C for Madrid, 14C in Rome, 4C in Bucharest, 18C in Athens, 0C in Warsaw, 2C in Berlin, -4C in Moscow and 0C for Stockholm.
Wednesday
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.