Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 15th January 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Snow across Scandinavia
Today
Rain is expected across much of Britain today but mild and windy. Dry across Belgium, Holland, Denmark but turning cloudy with evening rain. Mainly a dry, bright day across France with sunny spells and some cloud. Some patchy rain is forecast for Germany with more persistent rain expected across Poland, The Ukraine and Hungry. Snow spreads into Belarus today with snow across eastern Russia, fine in the west. Cold across Scandinavia with outbreaks of heavy snow across Norway and Sweden but fair and dry across Finland. A dry, mostly sunny day across the Balearics. A dry day across Romania, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Lots of sunshine too across Spain into the Balearics across into Italy.
Sunday
Cloudy, windy and wet across England today with outbreaks of rain. Light rain is also expected across the Low Countries, Denmark, Sweden and becomes heavier across Poland with freezing rain possible across the Baltic States. Lots of fine, weather is expected from Portugal into Spain, France and Germany. Sunny and dry across the Alpine Region today while more rain is expected across Poland with light snow for western Russia. Heavy snow is expected for western Finland today. High pressure is expected to produce lots of dry weather across central southern Europe today with dry weather across Hungry, Romania, The Ukraine, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia and Greece while lots of showers to come across western Turkey today. Mostly sunny and dry again across Italy.