Issued: 0530hrs Monday 28th March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Rain for Spain, Italy, Greece
Today
Portugal will see rain today but fine and mostly sunny across Spain into the Balearics while more rain will persist across southern France which extends across much of Italy into the former Yugoslavia and Romania. Mainly dry across England today with sunny spells into northern France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark into much of Germany though a number of heavy showers will affect Bavaria. Warmer today across western Europe. A few snow showers near the north coast of Poland today but mainly dry and sunny. Mainly dry, cold and sunny across Norway and Sweden while more snowfall is forecast for Finland, Russia and the Baltic States. Dry across the Ukraine into Bulgaria with sunny spells for Greece and sunshine and showers across Turkey. A wet day to come across Switzerland, Austria and Hungry with heavy rain.
Tuesday
An area of rain will lie from England south 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.