Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 3rd May 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Cold with Snow Showers for Scandinavia

Today
A fine, mostly sunny day across England, northern parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and northern parts of Germany and Poland. Southern parts of Poland and Germany will be wet with spells of rain. Heavy rain is also forecast for northern parts of Italy with heavy showers and thunderstorms across southern Italy, Corsica and Sardinia and the Adriatic Region. Most of Greece will be dry with sunny spells as will western parts of Turkey but showers will affect eastern Turkey today. It will remain sunny and very warm across Spain and Portugal. Continued cold across Scandinavia with further snow showers expected across northern halves of Norway, Sweden and Finland with the south. Generally, dry snow showers whilst affect northern Russia with the south dry. Fine across the Baltic States down into Belarus and most of the Ukraine and Romania. A strong mistral will be blowing across southern France today and staying quite windy down to the west of Sardinia.

Sunday
Today the hottest weather will be found across southern parts of Portugal and Spain with temperatures in the 30s Celsius. It also becomes very warm across Turkey today. Coolest conditions will be found across Scandinavia and from Russia westward across into Poland and northern Germany. High pressure will give much of western and central Europe a dry day. Expect dry, mostly sunny conditions all the way from Portugal through Spain into France, southern England, across through to the Low Countries into Denmark, Germany and most of Poland. Across Scandinavia it will remain quite cold with rain and snow showers across Finland, while snow showers are forecast for northern parts of Norway and Sweden with the south dry. Showers and outbreaks of rain are expected across the Baltic States with an area of rain forecast from western Russia through Belarus into western parts of Ukraine and the rain looks heaviest across Romania and through Hungary and the Adriatic Region. Showers are expected across eastern parts of the Ukraine and across Bulgaria into Slovenia and into southern parts of Italy where they may be thundery. Generally fine and dry across most of Greece and Turkey but there is a risk of some heavy, thundery showers across the far western parts of Turkey down towards Crete. It continues quite windy from southern France to west of Sardinia and it will also be quite windy along the northern coast of Spain and across eastern parts of the Mediterranean up through the Aegean Sea.