Issued: 0530hrs Monday 6 October 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Warmest across Southern Spain
Today
Very wet and windy weather sweeps in across Britain and northern France. Dry across central and southern parts of France along with Belgium, Holland and Denmark. High pressure will give much of eastern Europe a settled day. Lots of fine, dry weather to come from Germany eastward through Poland, The Baltic States into Russia and Finland. Dry as well across the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic and across the Adriatic Region while rain is forecast across Greece. Unsettled with heavy, thundery showers across Italy today. Apart from rain into north west Spain, most of Iberia will be fine and dry while showers are forecast around the Balearics. It turns cold across Norway with rain followed by snow. Southern Sweden will be dry with sunny while with rain in the north. Gales will affect the channel, the North Sea and Poland into southern Sweden along with northern France. Windy as well south of Italy.
Tuesday
A windy day across northern and eastern parts of Europe with strong gales in the North Sea. A dry day across England with the odd shower. More in the way of showers, some heavy are expected across parts of France, and up across Belgium and Holland. Outbreaks of rain are forecast for southern parts of Norway, southern parts of Sweden and through Denmark and Germany. The settled, fair and dry weather will persist from Finland through the Baltic States, across Russia and westward through Belarus, the Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. It should be dry across much of the Adriatic Region while outbreaks of rain will affect Romania and Bulgaria and this may be heavy. It will remain very unsettled and showery across Greece today and some of the showers will be heavy with the risk of thunder. Most of Turkey is expected to remain dry with sunny spells. A better day to come across Italy with most parts of the country fine and dry. Lots of dry weather is expected across Portugal and Spain with the highest temperatures today again across southern parts of Iberia.