Issued: 0530hrs Friday 17th April 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Not as warm
Today
Not as warm across Europe today. An area of rain will lie from England across into Holland, northern Germany and Poland with some of it locally heavy. Very unsettled and showery across France, Belgium and southern Germany today and some of these will be heavy with a risk of thunder. An area of very heavy, thundery rain will affect Portugal and western Spain. Fine and sunny weather is to prevail across eastern Spain into the Balearic, into Italy and Greece. Some heavy showers will affect Turkey, these mainly in the east. Showers and thunderstorms are likely today across the Alpine Region. Lots of sunshine and just a few showers today across the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria. A fine, dry and mostly sunny day across Belarus into the Baltic States and Russia. Dry and fine as well across Norway, Sweden and Denmark but rain will fall across Finland.
Saturday
A drier, sunny day to come across the United Kingdom. Lots of showers till to affect France today, some locally heavy as well in the south of France with a risk of thunder. Light morning rain across Belgium, Holland, northern Germany and southern Poland should die away then fair and dry. A few sharp showers though in the south of Germany. A very unsettled day across Iberia with spells of heavy rain, showers and scattered thunderstorms. Lots of showers too across into the Balearics and Italy. Much of Greece and Turkey should be fine and dry with long sunny spells. A number of showers will develop across the former Yugoslavia with much of Bulgaria and Hungary. An area of persistent rain is crossing Russia and extends into parts of Belarus and the north Ukraine. Rain will be clearing Finland in the afternoon with a dry day for Norway and Sweden. Fine as well across Denmark and the Baltic States.