Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 13th January 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Rain across Iberia

Today
Just some light snow to come across parts of Great Britain today and another cold one but a dry day for Belgium and Holland with some sunshine. Outbreaks of light rain are expected for France with a spell of heavier rain to come across Portugal and Spain. A dry day across the Balearics. Snow is expected across eastern parts of Germany into Poland today. Bright and dry for western Germany. Across the Alps heavy further falls of snow are expected with a wet day across Italy with rain. Today outbreaks of snow will fall across Denmark, southern Norway, Finland and the Ukraine. Across the Balearics into Belarus it stays dry but cold with sunny spells. Mostly dry toady across Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. More unsettled across the eastern Mediterranean with showers and longer spells of rain for Greece and Turkey. High temperatures will remain below freezing across eastern Europe and Scandinavia today.

Thursday
Drier but not so cold across the United Kingdom today. Mainly dry and bright across Belgium and Holland today but more snow to come across Finland with light snow for southern parts of Sweden and Finland. Dry and cold further north. Frigid temperatures and snow too is expected for Finland into western and northern Russia. Lots of cold buy dry weather prevails across the Baltic States into Belarus while outbreaks of snow affect Poland, the Ukraine and the Alpine Region. Some heavy accumulations are likely. Dry for northern France but heavy rain to come in the south and this extends across northern Spain with a few snow flurries across central Spain. An area of rain will also lie from the Balearics into Corsica and Sardinia with patchy light rain and sleet across Italy. More rain to come across Greece and Turkey today with a few snow flurries across Bulgaria. Cold but dry and mostly sunny across Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and Romania.