Issued: 0530hrs Monday 19th April 010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Showers across Iberia
Today
Generally a cloudy day across the United Kingdom with a few showers. Dry across Belgium, Holland and Denmark with sunny spells. More unsettled conditions but warm across France with a number of sharp showers. Cooler across Portugal and Spain today and very unsettled with sunshine an showers, some heavy. A fine, dry day across Germany and Poland with sunny skies as high pressure dominates. It's cold across Scandinavia with snow showers across western Norway and across parts of Finland. Sunny across Sweden. An area of rain will lie from Russia into the Baltic Stales, Belarus and southward into the Ukraine and Romania. Very unsettled across the Balkans with frequent, heavy showers across Bulgaria, Greece and the former Yugoslavia. Warm and dry across Turkey with sunny spells. A cloudy day with light rain for Italy but fine and sunny weather will prevail across Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearics.
Monday
A fine, dry day with sunny spells across Britain today and this dry weather stretches across into northern France into Belgium and Holland. Some heavy showers are forecast across central and southern France into Germany and western Poland while heavier rain is expected across Denmark. Lots of showers too across the Alpine Region with a day of sunshine and showers across Italy. The cold weather continues across Scandinavia today with snow showers for western Norway and parts of Finland. Rather cloudy but mainly dry for Sweden. For the Baltic Stales, Belarus and eastern Poland it's looking fair and dry today with scattered showers across Russia while another area of heavier rain falls across the Ukraine into Romania. Unsettled too for the former Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria with a number of heavy showers. Lots of heavy showers with a risk of thunder as well into Turkey but a dry, sunny day in store for Greece. Showery rain is forecast across Portugal today but for Spain expect lots of sunshine and quite warm in the south. Fair and dry then through the Balearics across into Corsica and Sardinia.