Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 5th March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Staying unsettled for S Italy
Today
Mainly dry across England today. Cold throughout Europe but dry across France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and into Germany and western Poland. An area of snow will stretch from eastern Poland into The Baltic States, Belarus into Russia and Finland. Cold but sunny and dry across The Ukraine, Romania, Hungry, Austria and Switzerland. The unsettled weather persists across Italy with heavy rain in the south. Mainly dry today across Greece with sunny skies for Turkey. One or two snow showers may affect the former Yugoslavia. Rain pushes into Portugal but a cold and dry day across Spain and the Balearics. Cold with snow showers for western Norway. Dry and sunny in the west and across Sweden.
Sunday
A lot of dry weather to come today across England, France, The Low Countries, into Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium as high pressure dominates. Fine across Spain and Portugal as well but still cold. Heavy snow showers to come today across Poland with heavy snow expected across The Baltic States, Belarus, Russia, The Ukraine and Romania. Dry and sunny today across the former Yugoslavia with snow showers across Hungry and rain showers for Greece and Turkey. More rain and showers will affect southern Italy but dry and sunnier in the north and across the Alps. Very cold but sunny today across Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.