Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 28th December 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Fine across the Mediterranean

Today
It becomes milder across England as rain spreads in during the day. For all of France expect a fine dry day with sunny spells. Fair and dry weather too is expected across Belgium, Holland and Denmark into a cold Norway. Expect light snow to fall across Germany, Sweden, parts of Poland and Belarus. Heavier snow is forecast across Finland, the Baltic States into Russia with snow as well expected across the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Hungry. Some rain to come across Greece, Turkey and southern Italy with northern parts of Italy fair and dry but cold. Dry across Spain, Portugal and the Balearics.

Wednesday
A mild, but dry and cloudy day to come across much of England today. Lots of cloud but also mainly dry across France, Belgium and the Netherlands today. Some sunshine though for the south of France. Apart from some light snow across Bavaria, a dry, mostly sunny day across Germany and western Poland, Eastern Poland will see heavy snow as will Belarus, the Baltic States, Russia. Snow too for the northern part of the Ukraine. But for the south along with Bulgaria, Romania, the former Yugoslavia and Greece it looks fine and dry. Some Rain to come across western Turkey with snow in the north. Rain moves into Portugal today but fine across Spain across into the Balearics and into Italy.