Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 23rd January 2016
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Warm Spain & Portugal


Saturday
Warm sunshine for Portugal and southern Spain, temperatures up to 20C. Fairly cloudy across northern Iberia. A mix of clouds and sun for Italy and the central Mediterranean, although dry for most, temperatures around 12C. Scattered showers and sunshine for Greece, feeling cool in a northerly breeze, highs 7C. Cold in Turkey, with snow spreading inland off the Black Sea. Showery around Cyprus.
A bright day for much of France, although cloudier with some rain on the Biscay coast. Mainly dry in Switzerland. Areas of snow for eastern parts of Germany, spreading east into the Czech Republic, also Austria. Patchy snow also reaches western areas of Poland. Milder than recent days in western Germany and the Low Countries, highs 5 to 8C. A frontal system pushes north into Scandinavia, allowing temperatures to rise here also, and bringing some snowfalls to southern Norway and Sweden, temperatures recovering to around -1C.

Sunday
Warm and sunny for much of Spain and Portugal, highs topping 20C in the south. High pressure brings settled weather to much of Europe, and allows milder air to spread across central and western countries. Sunshine for Italy and Greece. Staying cold around the Black Sea. Unsettled and possibly thundery for Cyprus.
Mild in France, with some sunshine, although cloudy near Biscay coasts. Drizzly rain for Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, also northern Germany. Dry for central Europe, including the Alps. Patchy snow around the Baltic Sea. Less cold than recently for Scandinavia, although temperatures still close to freezing. The bitter cold temperatures will become confined to far eastern Europe and Russia.