Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 24th January 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Bitterly cold weather continues in eastern Europe
Today
A largely dry but cloudy day to come across England today though some sunshine breaks through in the afternoon. 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.
Monday
Some light rain across England and northern France tends to die away in the afternoon albeit cloudy. Damp across Belgium and Holland light rain that may be mixed with some sleet. Some light rain too in the far south of France but mainly dry in central areas. Outbreaks of snow will fall across parts of Germany with heavier falls of snow across Switzerland, Austria and the French Alps. Much of Iberia should be dry but there will be an area of rain along the eastern coast of Spain across into the Balearics into northern Italy. Fair and dry in southern Italy. A cold, cloudy day for Poland but dry until some light snow arrives in the west later. Snow is expected across northern parts of Norway and Sweden with the south dry and sunnier. Fine and well across Denmark. Very cold but dry with sunny spells across Finland, the Baltic States into the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and Belarus. Outbreaks of snow are likely across Russia today. A mainly dry day to come for the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece while further snow is likely across much of Turkey though in the far south it looks drier and sunnier.