Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 25th April 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Mostly fine through the Mediterranean

Today
Look out for some heavy showers across England with a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. A lot of dry, sunny weather for France but a few scattered showers here as well, a few heavy in the south. For Belgium and Holland a fine, dry and mostly sunny day. Some light rain may affect Denmark with still a few snow showers for western parts of Norway and across Finland. Mostly fair and dry across Sweden. High pressure maintains to keep Germany, Poland, The Baltic States, the Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary with lots of pleasant sunshine. A cloudy day with rain and showers forecast for the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria while Greece and Turkey look fair and dry. Much warmer across Iberia today with occasional, heavy, thundery showers developing. Hot in Seville with temperatures close to 30C. Sunnier across Italy today but with scattered showers here and there.

Monday
Just a few scattered showers today across Great Britain. Lots of fine, dry weather across France with sunny spells. Very warm again across southern Portugal and Spain with much of Iberia fine and sunny. Dry with sunny spells too across the Balearics into Corsica and Sardinia. Just a few scattered showers across Italy with plenty of sunshine. A number of showers will develop across Belgium, Holland and Germany with more persistent rain across Denmark into Norway. A fine, mostly sunny day across Sweden, Poland, The Baltic Stales into Belarus and Finland. Lots of sunshine today across the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. Heavy rain to fall across Hungary and Austria. Expect scattered showers across the former Yugoslavia and Turkey. Dry across Greece today but a very showery day is forecast across Russia, some heavy.