Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 25th February 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Unsettled in eastern Mediterranean
Today
It will be a windy, unsettled day across the eastern Mediterranean. Outbreaks of rain and heavy, thundery showers are forecast from Sicily into southern Greece and southern Turkey. A dry day for northern Greece and northern Turkey. Mild and dry across the United Kingdom with light morning rain to clear from Belgium and Holland. Light rain lingers across Denmark and northern Germany with southern Germany fair and dry. Colder across Poland with light snow and sleet. Another mild dry day with lots of cloud across France. Portugal and Spain continues to have the best of the weather with a dry, sunny and pleasantly warm day to come. A much drier day today across Switzerland and Austria. Dry as well for Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Light snow will fall across western Russia, parts of the Baltic States into Belarus while it looks fine but cold across the Ukraine. Rain is likely across western parts of Norway with eastern Norway, Sweden and Finland mainly fair and dry.
Expect top temperatures of 12C in London, 8C for Brussels, 9C for Paris, 19C for Madrid, 11C in Rome, 4C in Bucharest, 11C in Athens, 1C in Warsaw, 2C in Berlin, -7C in Moscow and 1C for Stockholm.
Thursday
Cloudy, mild but a mainly dry day across England with outbreaks of rain across much of Belgium, Holland, Denmark and much of Germany. Some snow is likely over the Bavarian Alps. It remains fair, mild and dry across France today with the south sunniest. It also remains sunny and pleasantly warm and sunny across Portugal and Spain. An area of rain, sleet and snow will affect Finland, Russia, The Baltic States, Belarus into the Ukraine and Poland. Mostly dry across Norway and northern Sweden with rain for southern Sweden. This looks heavy and mixed with sleet. Heavy snow is expected to develop across Austria during the day. Fine and sunny weather extends fro Spain into the Balearics and across into Italy and Greece. Very unsettled with rain and heavy showers across Turkey. Large dry and cold with sunny spells across Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.