Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 16th January 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine through the Mediterranean
Today
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.
Monday
Fine and dry across the United Kingdom today. An area of rain will lie from Sweden into northern Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and northern France. Fair and dry across southern France and southern Germany. Lots of dry weather too across Poland with a dry, mostly sunny day across Hungry, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Cold with snow showers for Norway while heavy snow is expected across Finland into western Russia. Milder with outbreaks of rain across the Baltic States into Belarus and the Ukraine. Dry with sunny spells across Portugal, Spain into the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy. There is a risk of some heavy showers around Cyprus and Crete.