Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 8 March 2015
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Coldest in the east

Today
Warm and dry across Spain and Portugal with lots of spring sunshine. High pressure across eastern Europe is going to give a good deal of fine, dry and sunny weather from the Ukraine westward across Poland, Germany, The Low Countries into France. Rain will be spreading into Great Britain. Much of the Adriatic Region will be fine and dry while outbreaks of rain affect Greece with some snow across Slovenia and parts of Bulgaria. Heavy showers will affect Scilly with a dry, sunny day across Italy. Western parts of Turkey will see some rain with eastern Turkey, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic fine and dry. Rain and snow is expected for northern Russia. A dry day across the Baltic States. Rather cloudy across Scandinavia with light rain across Finland and Sweden. Windy across the central Mediterranean and across the Black and North Seas.

Monday
It continues warm across Spain and Portugal with sunny spells. A wet and very windy day across parts of Britain. Snow showers to affect western parts of Norway but for most of Scandinavia it's a dry day to come with good spells of sunshine. High pressure will continue to dominate a large part of Europe keeping it dry with sunny spells from France into Germany, Poland and this extends across the Adriatic Region and much of the Balkans as well. More rain to come across Greece and lots of heavy showers are expected from Sardinia across Scilly, the far south of Italy to Crete. Most of Turkey and Italy looks fine and dry. Some rain to come across The Baltic States and Russia.