Issued: 0530hrs Friday 2nd December 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. An area of rain will stretch from the Baltic States into Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland into northern Germany and northern France. Fair and dry across southern Germany with heavy shower to affect southern France, Corsica and Sardinia. Expect sunny spells southern Germany into Hungry, Austria and across the former Yugoslavia. Fine and sunny across the Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey with much of Italy also fine and dry. Rain clears to sunny spells across Portugal but a wet day across Spain and Portugal. A cold and windy day across Scandinavia with snow showers across Norway with rain and snow across Finland but dry and sunny across Sweden. Cold but dry with sunny spells across Romania and The Ukraine.

Saturday
A wet and windy day across southern England with rain into Denmark and across the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France. Expect snow showers across Norway and northern parts of Sweden but dry in the south. A dry, windy day across Finland with snow across Russia. Fair and dry today across southern France across into southern Germany, Poland and across Hungry while rain and snow is expected across Austria and Switzerland. Colder too heading east into Europe. Mildest today across a sunny Spain and Portugal but an area of heavy showers is expected from the Balearics over to Sicily while it looks sunny and dry across Italy, Greece, Turkey and into Romania.