Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 15th October 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Rain in the eastern Mediterranean but the west should be dry
Saturday
It turns colder across Russia and The Ukraine as rain turns to snow. Some heavy showers and rain to come across Greece with showers just south of Italy.
The fine, spell of dry weather continues across Britain into all of France, The Low Counties into Germany, Poland and the Baltic States. Cold across Scandinavia but a dry, mostly sunny day. Lots of fine weather too across the Alps, Austria, Hungry into the former Yugoslavia and Romania.
Pleasantly warm and sunny across Italy into Sardinia and the Balearics. A few showers may affect eastern Spain but overall dry and sunny across Spain and Portugal.
Sunday
A fine day for Iberia with Spain and Portugal enjoying sunshine throughout the day. More sunshine to come through France and remaining dry here. This dry weather extends into the Low Countries and Germany as well as Denmark and the south of Norway and Sweden.
Low pressure in the eastern Mediterranean will be bringing more unsettled conditions to Greece and Turkey with some windy weather here. Bulgaria and Romania will have some showers in the east, but the west should be dry.
Some broken cloud through Finland and the Baltic States. Cloud may affect northern Norway and northern Sweden, whilst the south of both countries should be dry with sunny spells.