Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 22nd January 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Cold and breezy in France and Spain, cloud and rain affecting Italy

Saturday
A breezy day with dry weather across most of Portugal and Spain. It is going to be feeling cold across more northern and eastern areas. Chilly and breezy in central and southern France but staying dry here with sunny spells. More cloud over the far north of France bringing some outbreaks of rain here. More cloud and some sleet or snow across the Low Countries and northern Germany. Poland will be largely dry with sunny spells, and these sunny spells extend through Hungary, Switzerland and Austria.
A chilly day for northern Italy,l but for central and southern areas the day remains cloudy and windy with some heavy periods and rain. More cloud and some drizzle in northwest Greece, but for most of the country the day should be dry with sunny spells. Heavy showers across southern Turkey, but elsewhere it should be dry and bright. Bulgaria will have cloud and outbreaks of light rain and drizzle, whilst Bulgaria will have sunny spells and dry weather.
Cloud and some snow affecting the Baltic States with this extending into Finland as well. Sweden should be dry with sunny spells and it should be largely dry for northern Denmark, although some cloud and sleet or snow to the south. Cloud and some snow over western parts of Norway.

Sunday
Another breezy but fair day to come across Spain and Portugal. The best sunshine always through Portugal with the risk of a few showers affecting the far south of Spain. A chilly day across France with sunny spells here, but some thicker cloud and some rain over the northeast of the country. Cloud and some drizzle affecting the Low Countries with more persistent rain for Germany and rain turning to snow as it plunges south through Poland. Fair again across Hungary, Austria and Switzerland.
Fair for the north of Italy but still some rain and cloud through central areas. Heavy showers in southern Italy and these extending to parts of Greece. A band of rain reaches western Turkey too, but most of the country should be dry and fair. Cloud and rain through Romania, some of it heavy, whilst Bulgaria should be dry and bright.
Bright with some scattered showers over the Baltic States with fine weather throughout Finland. Sunny spells and dry in Sweden, whilst some cloud and outbreaks of rain move into Sweden and Denmark.