Issued: 0530hrs Friday 23rd April 010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Coldest across Scandinavia,Russia

Today
The fine weather remains across Britain will continue today and feeling warm as well. Lots of sunshine to come here and into northern France into the Low Counties into Holland, Germany and Poland. Southern France will have a good deal of dry weather with just a few scattered showers. The cold weather hangs on across Scandinavia with snow expected across Norway and Finland but rain is forecast for Sweden. Rain and snow is expected across Russia with rain showers across the Baltic States into Belarus. Mainly dry today but cloudy for Hungary and Romania. An area of rain will lie from Corsica, Sardinia into Italy and into the former Yugoslavia. More cloudy today across Greece and Turkey but dry. Warmer and drier across Portugal and Spain today with sunnier spells and just a few showers. Early rain soon clears to sunny spells through the Balearics. A wet day to come across Switzerland and Austria with spells of heavy rain.

Saturday
A warm day across Iberia today but hotter in the south of Spain. Mostly a fine day but just the odd shower in the south. Warmer too across into France with lots of dry, sunny weather to be found. In fact high pressure will extend this spell of fine, settled weather right across Belgium, Holland, Germany and into Poland and The Baltic States as well but a bit cooler the further east you go. Still some snow showers for western Norway but dry and sunny inland. Scattered rain showers though for Sweden and Denmark. Early snow clear Finland leaving a sunnier day while rain clears to snow showers across Russia. Just a few showers across Belarus with any rain clearing The Ukraine by the afternoon. A spell of wet weather is expected across Italy into the former Yugoslavia and Romania today while it's looking like a fine start to the weekend across Greece and Turkey.