Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 21st December 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Rain in the eastern Mediterranean but fine for most
Wednesday
Early rain clears England and spreads in across The Low Countries, into Denmark and much of France. Rain too is expected across northern Germany with heavy snow in the south and into Poland and western Finland. Cold but dry across eastern Finland into the Baltic States and Belarus. Heavy snow will fall across Russia with rain, sleet and snow across the Ukraine and Romania. Heavy snow will again fall across the Alps Cold with sunny spells across Norway and Sweden with a few snow showers. Fine and sunny across Portugal and Spain with heavy, frequent showers from Sardinia across Sicily into the south of Italy into Crete and western parts of Turkey. Cold but dry with sunny spells for northern Italy and across into Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia into Bulgaria.
Thursday
High pressure brings a fine day to most of Spain and Portugal through today. This fine weather is going to be affecting France throughout the day. Some cloud and drizzle through the Low Countries and Germany as well as Poland. Mainly fair in Austria and Hungary, but some cloud and drizzle over Switzerland.
Unsettled weather over Italy and Greece with low of cloud, rain and very windy weather here. The rain affecting western parts of Turkey, but the east should be dry. Romania and Bulgaria will be dry with some sunny spells.
To the north it will be fine through the Baltic States with more sunshine to come here. Sweden should be dry with sunny spells, but cloud and outbreaks of rain will be affecting Norway and Denmark.