Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 22nd March 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

More unsettled, windy on Monday, fine across Iberia

Today
High pressure will be the main feature of the weather keeping the United Kingdom, France, Holland and Denmark fine, sunny and pleasantly warm. More cloud today across Germany with some patchy bits of rain. Areas of more persistent rain will spread across Norway, Sweden and Denmark with sleety rain across Finland. Light outbreaks of rain are forecast across much of Poland. Mainly fair and dry today across the Baltic States into Belarus and the Ukraine. Another fine, warm and sunny day across much of Iberia though there is a risk of some heavy showers across southern Portugal. A much better day to come across Italy with lots of sunshine and fine as well into the former Yugoslav Republic. Still windy and wet across Greece and Turkey with heavy, thundery rain. A sunny day across the rest of the Balkans.

Monday
A cloudier day with an area of rain moving south across England. A wet and windy day today across The Low Countries, Holland, Germany and much of Poland with outbreaks of rain. This looks heavy in the afternoon. The rain may be mixed some sleet across Poland. Lots of dry, sunny weather to come today across France and Iberia into the Balearics and across Into Italy as well. Dry with mist clear to sunny spells across the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Bulgaria. Very wet and rather windy again today across Turkey with spells of heavy rain and heavy showers with a risk of thunder. An area of sleety rain is forecast across Hungary. An area of rain, sleet and snow will affect parts of Sweden and Finland along with The Baltic States, Belarus into the Ukraine and Hungary and Romania. A dry day across much of Russia but cold. Fair and dry as well across Austria and Switzerland. Rain is expect across Norway though in the east it will be drier ad brighter.