Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 29th March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Snow across Finland, Russia

Today
Today we expect an area of rain to lie from England southward into western parts of France with showers across eastern Spain. Fair and dry across the channel into Belgium, The Netherlands into eastern France with showers around the Balearics. Lots of fine sunshine today across Germany, Denmark across into Poland, Belarus, Austria and The Ukraine. More snow is forecast across Russia with heavy snow expected across Finland while it looks like rain for Sweden and snow showers for Norway. Snow showers are expected across The Baltic States today. Lots of showers to come across Italy, some heavy while heavy rain moves in across Greece and Bulgaria. Mainly dry across Romania and Turkey today. Fine and sunny for Portugal into western parts of Spain.

Wednesday
A wet day to come across France and England with spells of heavy rain. Fine across Belgium, Holland and Germany with some sunshine. Some rain may edge into Denmark late in the afternoon. Lots of sunshine but cold across Norway and Sweden with snow expected across Finland and this will be very heavy across Russia and The Baltic States. Dry across Belarus, Poland, the Ukraine, Austria, Hungry and into the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey while some rain is expected across Romania. Rather cloudy across Italy with light showers. Some heavy showers will develop across the western Mediterranean but dry and sunny for Portugal and Spain.