Issued: 0530hrs Friday 2nd May 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Snow Showers Scandinavia
Today
It will be hot across Spain and Portugal and quite warm from Russia across the Ukraine into the Adriatic Region, while it remains quite cold across Scandinavia. Dry and cooler across the United Kingdom today and also across Belgium and Holland. An area of rain stretch from Poland across Germany into France and down across Corsica and Sardinia. Lots of heavy showers with the risk of thunder are expected across Italy, the Adriatic Region into Romania and northern parts of Turkey. Southern parts of Turkey along with Greece should be dry and mostly sunny. Much of Spain and Portugal will be dry with sunny spells. A number of heavy snow showers are forecast for Finland and also the northern parts of Sweden and Finland with eastern parts dry and sunny. Just a few scattered light showers across parts of the Baltic States but generally fair and dry. A dry day with sunny spells to come across Belarus, the Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Quite windy today across southern parts of France.
Saturday
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.