Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 14th September 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Staying settled across eastern Europe

Today
A wet and windy day to come across England today. This rain area extends across into Belgium, Holland across into much of Germany as well. Later this rain reaches western parts of Poland with a few showers in the east. A cloudy and damp day across Norway and Sweden with outbreaks of rain while showers are expected across Finland and the Baltic States. With high pressure dominating eastern Europe we'll find lots of fine, settled weather across Russia, the Ukraine, into Belarus, Romania and down across Hungary and Turkey. There a risk of a few sharp showers across Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Look out for some heavy showers today across the southern half of Italy while the north is dry and sunnier. Again Spain and Portugal will have the best of the warmest sunshine and fine too across the Balearics into France with long sunny spells.

Wednesday
Very windy across Britain today with scattered showers. An area of rain will lie from Hungary across southern Germany into northern France. Southern France looks sunny and dry while a number of heavy showers affect Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Mainly dry across northern Germany with rain and showers across Poland. Another area of heavy rain will lie across Finland into the Baltic States and Belarus. High pressure maintains across eastern Europe today. A dry day with good sunny spells across The Ukraine into Romania, the former Yugoslavia into Greece and Turkey. Lots of fine sunny weather prevails from Portugal across Spain into the Balearics into Italy.