Issued: 0530hrs Friday 15th January 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Rain across Iberia

Today
A milder day across Britain today with some light rain and drizzle. Heavier rain is expected across France with heavy snow for the French and Italian Alps. Continued cloudy and damp across Portugal and Spain with outbreaks of rain. Largely a dry, sunnier day across the Balearics with heavy showers to affect Corsica and Sardinia. Some rain to come across northern parts of Italy today but fair and dry in the south. Just a few isolated showers and sunny spells for Greece today but look for heavy rain across Turkey. Across the Low Counties it should be dry with sunny spells. Just some light snow today in the south of Sweden and Denmark other wise dry and sunny across Sweden. Heavier snow is to fall across Finland and northern Russia along with the Ukraine. Mainly dry but cloudy and cold across Germany and some light snow or snow flurries will affect Poland. Fine and sunny across the Baltic Sates with dry conditions also for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Saturday
Mild, wet and windy across The United Kingdom with heavy rain. Heavy rain will also affect France, northern Spain and later Belgium. Dry across southern parts of Iberia. Dry as well across Holland, Germany and the Alpine Region with some sunshine. Light snow is forecast for Denmark, Norway and Sweden with heavy snow across Finland. A dry day to come across Russia, The Baltic States and Belarus but very cold. Outbreaks of light snow will persist across Poland, The Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. Fair and dry today across Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Outbreaks of rain will continue across Greece and Turkey today. Dry across the Balearics into Italy.