Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 1st October 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Rain across Russia

Today
With high pressure in charge, lots of fine, warm, summery weather to come across Europe. Lots of warm sunshine will be on offer across Britain, France, The Low Counties into Germany. This fine, dry weather will also extend across into Poland into the Baltic States with lots of heavy showers across Russia. Cooler across Scandinavia but dry and mostly sunny across Norway, Sweden and Finland. It also looks settled and dry across the Ukraine, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and Turkey. Fair and dry across Italy today with long sunny spells. Just a few showers are forecast across the far south west of Spain but mainly dry and sunny for Portugal and Spain. Very windy across Finland and Russia and feeling cold.

Sunday
Lots of very warm, sunny weather is expected across Europe today. Lots of sunshine across Britain, France into the Low Countries and this is expected to extend eastward across Denmark into Poland, southern Sweden, Finland into the Baltic Region and into Belarus. Rain is forecast today across Norway and northern Sweden as well as for much of Russia. Just a few showers possible to day across Romania but overall fine, dry and sunny across the Ukraine into the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey. A few sharp showers may develop across Greece today with Italy fine and sunny. Sunny, dry and hot weather persists across Spain and Portugal with sunny skies across the Alps into Switzerland, Austria and Hungry.