Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 8th April 010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Snow for Finland then rain
Today
Lots of dry, sunny weather to come across England today. A stalled front will keep it mostly cloudy across France with some rain and scattered showers through the day. Rain clears Norway leaving a few wintry showers. Another band of rain will lie from Sweden into Germany but dry in the south with some sunshine. Outbreaks of rain and snow will fall across Finland today with showers into Russia. Dry and sunnier today across Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. High pressure will give Poland, The Baltic States, Belarus and Hungary a dry, mostly sunny day. Lots of fine weather too into the Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria into Greece. Mainly dry across Turkey with just a few showers in the north. Continued warm and sunny across Spain and for the Balearics. Rain is forecast for Corsica and Sardinia but dry across Italy but turning cloudy.
Friday
High pressure is now building in across western Europe. Lots of fine, dry and sunny weather will prevail across the United Kingdom into Germany, Holland, Germany and France and quite warm and sunny into Portugal and Spain. Dry as well for the Balearics with an area of rain and showers across Corsica, Sardinia and the far south of Italy. Dry and sunnier across the rest of Italy. Expect a few scattered showers across the former Yugoslavia with dry, sunny weather into Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Ukraine. Cold but mainly dry for Norway with sunny spells through Sweden. An area of heavy rain will affect Finland and the Baltic Stales today with a few showers for parts of Poland and Belarus.