Issued: 0530hrs Friday 13th March 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Chilly across eastern Europe

Today
A mild day across the United Kingdom and western Europe. Dry as well across England, France and across the Low Counties, Denmark and Holland. Some dry sunnier spells too for Germany but there is a risk of scattered showers across eastern Germany, a few may be heavy. Mainly dry and bright across Poland today. Cold across the Alps with a few wintry showers. Cloudy across Norway and Sweden and northern Finland with some light rain. Dry across southern Finland, The Baltic States, Russia and Belarus. Heavy rain will affect the Ukraine and Turkey. Largely dry across Bulgaria and Hungary. Lots of very warm sunshine to come across Portugal and Spain and into the Balearics today. Dry and sunny too across Italy into Greece and the former Yugoslavia. .
Expect top temperatures of 13C in London, 10C for Brussels, 15C for Paris, 23C for Madrid, 16C in Rome, 9C in Bucharest, 14C in Athens, 4C in Warsaw, 8C in Berlin, 3 in Moscow and 4C for Stockholm.

Saturday
More unsettled today across the United Kingdom with outbreaks of rain. This rain pushes into northern France, Belgium and Holland in the afternoon. Continued sunny and warm across Iberia today. Fine as well across southern France, the Balearics and Italy. Just a few showers today across the former Yugoslavia. More persistent rain continues across Turkey into the Ukraine and Hungary. A fine, dry day across Greece and Bulgaria. Persistent rain moves into Norway with a dry day of sunny spells across Sweden and much of Finland, The Baltic States and Russia. For Poland, Germany and the Alpine Region it also looks dry with well broken cloud.