Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 18 October 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Wet across Scandinavia
Today
Very mild across Britain with patchy, light rain. Lots of fine, dry weather with sunny spells to come from Spain into France, Belgium, Holland into Germany. High pressure will also keep it settled and dry across Poland, The Baltic States, Finland, The Adriatic Region and The Balkans. Heavy rain is expected around the Black Sea area into eastern Romania and the far north of Turkey otherwise fair and dry. Apart from a few showers in the north most of Italy will be dry with sunny spells. Cloudy across Portugal with light rain. It continues fine and dry across Spain and eastward into the Balearics. Windy and wet across Norway with rain into southern Sweden. Quite a windy day across the eastern Mediterranean.
Sunday
Patchy rain clears southern England with most of Britain dry. High pressure will dominate much of mainland Europe and keep it. Largely settled and dry. These dry conditions will extend from Portugal and Spain across through into France, Germany and into Poland. Some patchy rain may affect western parts of the Low Countries. An area of heavy rain is forecast across Finland, into the Baltic States with rain also across Norway and Sweden into Denmark. We can expect a good deal of dry weather with sunny spells across the Adriatic Region and across the Balkans into the Ukraine and western Russia. Outbreaks of rain with snow showers will affect eastern parts of Turkey with western Turkey fair and dry. It looks fine and sunny across Italy today. Today the warmest temperatures will be across Iberia and across into Italy. Strong northerly winds will be blowing down through the Aegean Sea with a brisk easterly wind through the Straits of Gibraltar. Strong south westerly winds will affect Britain and eastward across towards the Baltic States.