Issued: 0530hrs Monday 17th October 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Heavy showers in eastern Mediterranean

Today
Rains sweeps in across a winder Britain today but rather windy. High pressure areas across Europe are going to bring a good deal of dry, settled conditions across much of mainland Europe. Deep low pressure will give gusty winds and frequent heavy showers to southern Greece and Turkey with rain across eastern Romania. Lots of heavy showers too with thunderstorms are expected south of Greece and Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. Lots of dry, cool weather across into Italy but warm, dry and sunnier into the Balearics into Spain and Portugal. Fine and mostly sunny from France eastward to Russia. Showers will affect western Norway but dry from eastern Norway into Sweden and southern Finland. Apart from a few coastal showers, it looks dry across Belgium, Holland and Denmark.

Tuesday
Showers to come across western Britain today with a band of rain across Sweden into Denmark into northern Germany into northern France. Fine and dry with sunny spells from southern France into the rest of Germany and eastward across Poland to Russia and Finland. Snow showers will affect Norway today and windy too. Heavy rain is forecast across the Ukraine into the Black Sea with a few showers across Turkey today. Fine and dry across Greece and west into Italy, Spain and Portugal. Still quite warm across other Iberia. Lots of sunshine to come but chill across Greece, the former Yugoslavia into Hungry and Austria into Switzerland. Rain clears Belgium and the Netherlands in the morning leaving a few showers.