Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 8th April 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine across Iberia
Today
The warm weather persists across eastern Europe with temperatures well into the twenties. A belt of heavy rain clears England and moves in across northern France into Belgium and Holland in the afternoon after a dry morning. Quite windy here as well. Fine across much of Germany with just a few showers in the east of the country. A few sharp showers too across the south of France with some heavy thunderstorms moving into the central Mediterranean across Sardinia and Corsica. A drier, sunnier day across Italy. Lots of fine sunshine is forecast across Spain today but a few showers are possible across the Balearics. High pressure will give the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Hungary a dry, mostly sunny day. An unsettled and generally wet ay to come across much of Scandinavia with outbreaks of rain. Rain too to come across the Baltic States into northern parts of Poland.
Thursday
Heavy rain is going to affect England and windy here with coastal gales. Rain too moves into north west Spain in the afternoon. Much of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Germany with lots of fine, spring sunshine on offer. Mainly fine and sunny across Norway and Sweden today. An area of rain across Finland will extend south across the Baltic Sates, northern Belarus into Poland. More showers are forecast for Italy with heavy, thundery rain to affect Sardinia and Corsica. Fine, sunny weather will affect the rest of Spain and the Balearics. Scattered showers will develop across the former Yugoslavia with high pressure keeping Greece, Turkey, Hungary and Bulgaria fine and dry. Expect a few scattered showers across Romania and over the Alpine Region.