Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 4th November 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Cold in the east

Today
Very windy and very unsettled across much of the western and central part of the Mediterranean with frequent heavy, thundery showers as gales affect western and southern coasts of Iberia and also the central Mediterranean. A wet day with some heavy rain from England across France across the Alps into northern Italy. Dry across southern Italy today. Better across Portugal and Spain with just a few showers for eastern Spain. Windy though and feeling cold. Fair and dry across Norway, Sweden into Denmark, Holland and Belgium. Eastern Europe remains settled with a dry day of sunny spells from Germany east across Poland, The Baltic States, Russia, Belarus, The Ukraine into the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Greece. Sunny today across Turkey.

Sunday
The heavy rain and gales will persist across much of the western and central Mediterranean today with heavy showers and rain from Spain across southern France into Italy. Some patchy rain across England today but mainly dry across eastern France into Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colder but mainly dry across Norway, Sweden and Finland. Dry and settled with sunny spells across the Baltic States into Russia, The Ukraine, Romania into Hungry, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. A lot of dry, sunny weather as well into Greece and Turkey today.