Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 19th October 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Fair in central parts of Europe, cold and unsettled to the north
Wednesday
A windy, cold but mainly dry day across England. Some showers to come for northern France and across Belgium, Holland into Denmark and up into the Baltic Sea with some heavy ones. An area of rain will stretch from Finland into the Baltic States, Poland into southern parts of Germany and France and across the Alps into Switzerland.
Dry today but cloudy and windy across northern Germany. Cold and windy across Norway and Sweden with snow showers across western Norway. Lots of dry but colder weather across Russia into Belarus, The Ukraine into Romania, Hungry, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia. Sunny and dry across Greece and Turkey and westward into southern Italy. Just a few showers across northern Italy today. Sunny and warm across Spain and Portugal today.
Thursday
High pressure brings dry weather and good spells of sunshine through France and southern parts of the UK. This sunshine extends through Spain and Portugal too. There will be dry weather over the Low Countries and Germany and well as Poland.
An area of low pressure over northern Italy makes the weather here more unsettled through the day. There will be broken cloud and some showers, a few of them heavy at times. A fair day through Greece and Turkey with lots of sunshine to come here. Staying dry across Bulgaria and Romania.
The far north of Europe will be more unsettled with sunny spells and heavy showers. It is going to be windy and cold through Finland and the Baltic States. Sweden will have more frequent showers in the north, and there will be windy weather with frequent wintry showers affecting northwestern parts of Norway. Denmark will be chilly with sunshine and showers.