Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 23rd January 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Little change this weekend
Today
Lots of cloud but a dry day to come the United Kingdom. An area of rain will stretch from Holland, Belgium across the north of France and into Portugal and Spain. Some light snow to come across Denmark with more persistent snow expected across Norway and Sweden. Dry but very cold and sunny today across Finland, Russia, The Baltic States, Belarus and the Ukraine along with Poland with sub zero high temperatures. Fair and dry across Germany with some sunshine in the south. It should be dry from the Balearics across southern France into Italy today with sunny spells. Lots of sunshine is forecast across the Alpine Region into Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia today. Light snow will fall across Romania and western Turkey with rain and showers across Greece. The snow may become heavy across western Turkey with the east staying fine and dry. .
Sunday
Another largely dry but cloudy day to come across England today. Sunnier today for the north of France, Belgium and Holland with some sunshine. An area of rain now extends across southern France into southern Spain and the Balearics. Colder across Germany with outbreaks of snow. This snow extends north into Denmark and into Norway. A cold but dry, brighter day across Sweden today. Sunny but still bitterly cold across Finland, western Russia into the Baltic States and Poland. Here high pressure maintains and also keeps it dry for the Ukraine, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. Dry as well across Hungary but some snow flurries are expected across Bulgaria. Mainly dry today across Greece and Turkey but some light snow may affect northern Turkey. Another fine, sunny day to come across Italy.