Issued: 0530hrs Monday 28th November 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Heavy snow across Russia
Today
Rain is expected across northern Britain but a dry day to come across England today with strong winds into much of north and eastern parts of Europe. Cold across Scandinavia with sunny spells and a few coastal snow showers. Heavy snow is possible across Russia today with snow showers across The Baltic States into Belarus. With a cell of high pressure over Hungry, it will dominate much of mainland Europe. Much of Europe will also be settled and dry. Expect sunny spells from France across the Low Countries into Germany, Poland into and into the Ukraine into Hungry, Austria and Switzerland. Fine and sunny across the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey while heavy showers affect an area south of the Balearics. Sunny and dry for Italy ad also across Turkey. A fine day to come for the Balearics and dry, sunny as well come across Spain and Portugal.
Tuesday
A wet and windy day across England with rain into Norway and Sweden. A dry, windy day across Finland with more snow across Russia. High pressure will continue to keep a large part of Europe settled and dry with lots of sunshine but there will be dense fog patches from France across into Germany, Poland and across Hungry, Austria and Switzerland that may not clear. Colder too heading east into Europe. Mildest today across a sunny Spain and Portugal but an area of heavy showers is expected south of the Balearics over to Sicily while it looks sunny and dry across Italy, Greece, Turkey and into Romania.