Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 31st March 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Showers in the eastern Mediterranean
Today
Windy with more rain to come across the United Kingdom and this rain extends across into France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany. This rain will be heavy. Colder across northern Sweden, Norway and Finland with snow. More snow too across Russia today but dry in the west. High pressure will give the Baltic States, Belarus, Poland, The Ukraine, Romania, Hungry, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria a fine, dry with sunny spells. Some heavy showers will affect Greece today but dry in the main across Turkey. Fair and dry as well across Italy. Warmer across Spain and Portugal today with highs into the mid twenties.
Friday
Very warm across southern Spain and warm into the Balearics into Italy today. Warm too across England and France and dry as well. Rain is forecast across the channel into Belgium, Holland, Denmark and northern Germany with showers in the south. Dry across western parts of Poland with a band of rain from the far south of Finland into the Baltic States into eastern Poland and Hungry. More snow for northern Finland and the far east of Russia. Dry across western Russia into Belarus, The Ukraine into the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Continued wet across Greece with more rain while it stays dry across Turkey. Lots of heavy showers to come in the eastern Mediterranean today from Sicily to Crete. Fine today with sunny spells across Switzerland and Austria.