Issued: 0530hrs Monday 21st March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Fine across Spain, Italy

Today
Fair and dry across England today with a fair amount of cloud. With high pressure in charge, much of Europe is going to have some fine, dry weather. Warm with sunny skies across Portugal and Spain today and this sunshine is expected to extend across the Balearics, across France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and into Germany and Poland. It does cool down heading east. Cloudy, damp conditions will be found across Norway and Sweden with outbreaks of mainly rain. Colder with snow then a risk of freezing rain across Finland and Russia today. Sunny and dry across The Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. Cloudy and cold with rain, sleet and snow for the former Yugoslavia with rain forecast for Greece and showers for Turkey. Some rain to come for the far south of Italy with rest of the country dry with sunny spells.

Tuesday
Fair and dry across England across the channel into the Low Countries and Denmark. Dry with lots of sunshine across France today and this extends across into Germany and Poland. Heavy snow showers will affect western parts of Norway with some sleety rain across the rest of Norway with light rain into Sweden and Finland. This rain will stretch down across the Baltic States across western Russia into Belarus and western Ukraine with snow for eastern Russia. Fair and dry today across Switzerland, Austria, and Hungry with a few showers across the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece. Colder today across Turkey with sunny spells and some wintry showers. A few scattered showers too across eastern parts of Spain and the far south of Italy. Fine and dry for much of Portugal, Spain and Italy.