Issued: 0530hrs Monday 24th January 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine across the Mediterranean
Today
Mainly a dry day to come across Britain. Light rain is forecast for northern France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Central and southern France will be dry with sunny spells. Cold across Germany with snow and this extends across Poland, The Ukraine into southern Russia. Heavy snow showers will fall across western Norway with snow and freezing rain into Sweden and snow for Finland today. Dry and cold across the Baltic States and northern Russia. More snow to fall across the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria today but a dry day across Romania and Hungry. Cloudy with rain today for Greece and much of Turkey. Some rain will affect the far south of Italy but much of the country looks dry with sunny spells. During the day rain moves into the far south of Portugal and Spain. Most of Iberia looks fair and dry bit still cold across Spain. Dry and sunnier today across the Balearics. Heavy snow is forecast across Austria and Switzerland.
Tuesday
Cold but dry and sunny across Portugal, Spain and southern France today. A few showers will be found around the Balearics and Sardinia. Some light rain to fall across England today with showers expected across Belgium and rain for the Netherlands and Denmark. Light snow is forecast for eastern France into Germany into western Poland. The snow looks heavy across The Baltic States into Finland and Russia. A dry, very cold day across Norway with snow across southern Sweden. Fair, cold but dry today across eastern Poland, Belarus, Hungry, Romania, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Fine and sunny too across Greece today with heavy showers across Turkey. Dry with sunny spells today across Italy with snow across Austria.