Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 8th February 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
A bit milder across Europe
Today
Rain preceded by heavy snow is expected to spread into the United Kingdom today. Light snow will persist across eastern France and will move into western Germany. Snow an snow showers will also fall across the Low Countries into Denmark today with snow persisting across the Alpine Region. Western Poland will have outbreaks of snow while rain is forecast in the west. Heavy rain to come across western France and the north of Spain today. Central and southern Spain looks fine and sunny as does the Balearics. Apart form some light rain in the far south of Italy, it's a dry day while heavy rain and thundery showers are likely across Greece and Turkey. Further showers to come across the former Yugoslavia with rain and sleet into Romania. Cold with outbreaks of snow across much of Scandinavia, this heavy across Finland. Light snow to come across the Baltic area but continued fair and dry across Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Expect top temperatures of 4C in London, 3C for Brussels, 4C for Paris, 9C for Madrid, 12C in Rome, 14C in Bucharest, 18C in Athens, 7C in Warsaw, 4C in Berlin, 2C in Moscow and 4C for Stockholm.
Monday
Overnight we are watching a deep low pressure area moving into western France into the channel and this has the potential for damaging gusts of wind over 100 mph across western France so severe weather is certainly a possibility. Rain spreads into southern England during the day with heavy rain, snow and gales tonight. Heavy rain moves into northern France then into the west tonight. Just some patchy light rain today across Belgium and Holland with light snow flurries for Denmark and much of Germany. Fair and dry across Poland today with an area of sleet and snow across Russia with rain for Belarus, the Ukraine into Romania. Expect snow across northern parts of Norway and Sweden and across Finland. Fair and dry in the south. It becomes windy across Iberia with rain spreading into Portugal and western Spain with severe gales in the north. A better day across the Balearics into Italy with sunny spells. Areas of rain will affect the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey.