Issued: 0530hrs Monday 16 February 2015
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Generally cold

Today
Dry with cloud and sun across Portugal and Spain. Fine across France with the north sunny and south cloudy. Heavy showers and heavy rain is expected across Corsica, Sardinia and Italy with more snow across the Alps. Cold and cloudy across Turkey with snow, this heavy in the east. Expect a good deal of dry weather with sunny spells across the Adriatic Region and much of the Balkans today. More cloud with a few snow flurries from the Ukraine into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Norway. Mostly sunny and dry across Germany, Holland and Belgium. Rain spreads into western Britain today. Cold and sunny across the Baltic States into Finland. A windy day across the western and central Mediterranean.

Tuesday
High pressure will give much of Europe a settled day. Cold but lots of dry weather to come from Russia westward into the Baltic States, Poland and Germany. A cloudy day across France with patchy light rain. Cold across Spain with wintry showers in the north and rain in the south. Wet across the Balearics with plenty of heavy showers across much of the Mediterranean along with longer spells of rain. Cloudy and cold across Italy with rain and snow. Much of Greece will be dry while snow is expected across Turkey. Fair and dry across Bulgaria, the Adriatic Region, Austria, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine. A cloudy, cold day across Norway, Sweden and Finland, with snow, this heavy across Finland.