Issued: 0530hrs Boxing Day 26th December 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Showery in the central Mediterranean
Boxing Day
High pressure will give much of western Europe a settled dry day. Dry then with some sunshine across England into France, Portugal into Spain and all of Italy. Rather mild here as well. Cloudy across Belgium, Holland and northern Germany with some patchy rain. Dry and sunnier across southern Germany. Outbreaks of rain will affect Poland, Belarus, Austria and Hungary with snow across the former Yugoslavia. Dry and cold across the Ukraine into Romania and Bulgaria with sunny spells and a few showers across Greece. Cold but sunnier across Turkey today. Expect snow to come across Finland and Russia today but dry with sunny spells across the Baltic States into Sweden and Norway.
Tuesday
Lots of fine, mild and dry weather to come across western and central parts of Europe today. Dry with sunny spells from Spain into France, England and across into Belgium, Holland, Germany and southern parts of Poland. Some rain to come from Denmark into the far north of Germany into northern Poland which becomes heavier across the Baltic States, Belarus and Russia. Heavy snow showers will affect western parts of Norway but mainly dry with sunny spells for eastern Norway, Sweden and southern Finland. A number of heavy showers will be found near the eastern coast of Spain into the Balearics into Sardinia and Sicily and the far south of Greece. Lots of fine sunny weather will prevail across Italy into much of Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and north into Romania into the former Yugoslavia and the Ukraine. Dry too into Austria, Switzerland and Hungry.