Issued: 0530hrs Monday 28th September 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Fine for much of Europe

Today
It will be fine and dry across the United Kingdom, Belgium and Holland with sunny spells. Dry with lots of sunshine as well across all of France and western Spain along with Portugal. Eastern Spain and the Balearics will see some heavy thundery showers with a few showers too in the far south of Italy. The bulk of Italy though looks fine and sunny and this fine weather will stretch across right across into the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria into Hungary and Romania. An area of heavier rain will lie from Russia across the Baltic States across northern parts of Poland, Germany and Denmark. Dry for southern parts of Germany and Poland with sunny spells. Showers will affect Norway with basically a dry day for Sweden and Finland.

Tuesday
Outbreaks of persistent rain will fall from Denmark across northern Germany into Poland through Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia. Fine and sunny across southern Germany and the Alpine Region. Light rain or showers too for the Baltic States and Finland. Expect showery rain across western parts of Norway while the east and much of Sweden will be fair and dry. A older day across Scandinavia. Heavy showers will be found near eastern Spain and across the Balearics once again today. The rest of Iberia is to stay dry and sunny. Lots of dry, sunny weather till prevail from France across Italy, the former Yugoslavia and across the Balkans.