Issued: 0530hrs Monday 19th December 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Best across Iberia

Today
Unsettled and windy day across much of Europe with rain into Britain and France with snow forecast across Germany. Mainly dry across Belgium and Holland with a few showers into Denmark with snow showers across western parts of Norway. Outbreaks of snow are likely across Sweden, Finland, western parts of Russia and the Baltic States. A dry day to come for most of Poland, Belarus, Hungary, The Ukraine into most of Romania. Outbreaks of snow will fall across Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia with rain forecast across Greece. Plenty of heavy showers to come across Italy, these as snow in the north. The showers extend westward across Corsica, Sardinia into the Balearics while it will be a dry day across Spain and Portugal. Cold but mainly dry across Turkey with rain and sleet across Bulgaria.

Tuesday
A drier day to come across England today with a few showers in the far north of France into Belgium and Holland. An area of snow is expected across southern Sweden into Denmark with rain and snow into German. Heavier snow is expected across the Alps today with snow in the forecast again for Finland and parts of Russia. Some rain to come in the south of France today with heavy showers in the central Mediterranean into the south of Italy into Greece and western parts of Turkey. Some snow is likely across Bosnia and Serbia but dry across Croatia into Hungry, Poland, Belarus and most of the Baltic States. Another dry day to come across Portugal and Spain along with the Balearics.