Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 15th April 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Settled for eastern Europe

Today
Rather warm and humid with some heavy, thundery showers to come across France, Portugal, Spain and parts of England. Some heavy showers too to affect the Balearics. High pressure will give the Low Counties, Holland, Denmark and Germany a fine, sunny and quite warm day. Lots of fine, sunny and dry weather too will extend across into Poland, The Baltic States, Russia and Belarus. Just a few showers today across the Ukraine and across the Alpine Region. Dry with sunny skies to prevail across Italy, the former Yugoslavia into Bulgaria and Hungary. For Greece expect a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. Heavy, thundery and more prolonged and frequent showers are forecast across Turkey today. Apart from some patchy rain across northern Sweden it looks fair and dry across Norway the rest of Sweden and Finland.

Thursday
The warm weather is likely to set off quite a few showers across the United Kingdom and in particular, France into Belgium, Germany and western Germany where the rain may become more prolonged. Still very unsettled across Iberia today with plenty of heavy showers with scattered thunderstorms. This will extend up across The Alps as well into the far north of Italy. Fine and sunny across the Balearics into the rest of Italy, Greece, western Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. Heavy showers will continue across eastern parts of Turkey. A band of rain clears eastern Norway and moves across northern Sweden into parts of Finland. Fine, sunny weather is to prevail from eastern Germany across into Poland, The Baltic States, Russia and Belarus. Settle and dry as well for Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.