Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 11 October 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine and Dry across Central and Eastern Europe
Today
Cool with sunny spells and scattered showers across England today. Fair and dry across Belgium and Holland. Apart from some rain in the far southeast of France, much of France should be dry with sunny spells. Some patchy light rain to come across Portugal and western Spain with central and eastern areas of Spain and the Balearics having a dry day. It will be a cloudy day with outbreaks of rain across Denmark through Germany with heavy rain forecast for Switzerland. A few heavy showers are expected in the far north of Italy. Most of central and southern parts of Italy along with the Adriatic Region and all of the Balkans will have a settled and dry day with good spells of sunshine. Some rain to come for northern parts of Russia. The rest of Russia along with the Baltic States, Belarus, Poland, the Ukraine and most of Turkey should be dry today with sunny spells. Showers are in the forecast across Finland with Sweden and Norway dry.
Sunday
Largely dry across England today. An area of heavy rain will affect northern France with a few sharp showers in the south. Some heavy showers with thunderstorms are expected across Spain and Portugal today but mainly dry across the Balearics into Corsica and Sardinia. Lots of fine, dry, sunny weather is expected through Italy, the Adriatic Region and across most of the Balkans States. Outbreaks of heavy rain are expected across Norway and Sweden with heavy showers across southern Sweden and Denmark. Fair and dry across Belgium, Holland and Germany with sunny spells expected across Poland, Belarus into the Ukraine. An area of rain is expected across the Baltic States into northern Russia. Western parts of Turkey should be mostly sunny and dry with a few heavy showers across eastern Turkey. Quite a windy day across Spain and Portugal.