Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 20th March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Sunny, warm across Iberia
Today
Mainly dry but cloudier today across England and the north of France. Sunnier and dry across southern France into The Low Counties into Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Further falls of heavy snow to come across Finland, Russia, The Baltic States, Belarus and the Ukraine with rain further south across Romania, Greece, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia with plenty of showers across Turkey. Rain and snow for eastern Poland, sunnier in the west. Fair and dry today across Italy with sunny weather across Switzerland and Austria. Still pleasantly warm and sunny across Spain and Portugal with lots of sunshine into southern France as well.
Monday
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.