Issued: 0530hrs Monday 5th October 2009
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Cooler across Europe

Today
An area of rain is expected across northern France across southern Germany and the Alpine Region. Dry and sunnier for southern France and northern Germany. Largely a fine, dry day again across England and dry too for the Low Counties, Holland, Denmark and much of Poland with sunny spells. Scattered snow showers will affect western Norway but much of Norway and Sweden will be dry and sunny after an early frost. Windier and wet across Finland, The Baltic States and Russia with heavy rain. Lots of dry weather will prevail across Belarus, the Ukraine south into Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Rain is forecast for Portugal today while much of Spain is dry and a sunny and this fine weather is to extend across the Balearics into Italy as well.

Tuesday
A wetter day to come across the United Kingdom with outbreaks of rain spreading in from the west. Heavy rain moves into Norway and turns to snow. Rain too is forecast across Belgium, Holland and Denmark while it stays dry across Sweden. Fine and mostly sunny today across much of France with sunny spells, cloud and a few showers across Germany. More heavy showers are expected across Portugal with a dry, sunny day across Spain, the Balearics into Italy, Greece, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. Just a few showers today develop across Romania and Hungary. Lots of sunshine today across Poland while heavy rain falls across Russia. Light rain is expected across the Baltic States with Finland cold but sunny.