Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 26th October 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Windy in the north

Today
Mainly dry across England today. An area of moderate to heavy rain will affect Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Some rain mixed with snow to come across Norway. Lots of dry, sunny weather is expected across Sweden, Finland, Russia, The Baltic States, Poland, Belarus into the Ukraine, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. Dry across Greece and Turkey with sunny spells. Outbreaks of rain will spill in across Portugal today with strong gales around the coasts, cloudy but mainly dry across Spain with sunny spells across the Balearics. Dry and sunny across all of France, Belgium and Holland today. Cold across Scandinavia and eastern Europe with the warmest temperatures across southern Spain.

Thursday
A wet day across England and this extends south across western France into Spain and Portugal with showers across the Balearics. Very windy across the western Mediterranean. Dry across eastern France into Belgium, Holland and Denmark but cloudy. A dry day to come across Germany into Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Windy with showers across Norway with an area of rain from Sweden into western Poland into Hungry, the former Yugoslavia into southern Italy. Cold but dry across Finland, Russia, the Baltic States, into the Ukraine, Romania and Turkey. Mainly dry across Greece with a good deal of cloud.