Issued: 0530hrs Monday 14 December 2015
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Dry across Italy, Adriatic, Balkans

Today
Heavy rain is expected across England, Portugal and Spain. Most of France is to remain dry with the best of the sunshine in the south and east. Dry across Belgium, Holland and most of Germany with sunnier spells. Heavy rain may affect the far south of Norway and Sweden with a wet day across Denmark. Finland will be dry while further snowfall is expected across Russia and this spreads into Belarus and the Ukraine. For the Adriatic Region, the Balkan States, Italy and Turkey it will be staying fine and dry with sunny spells.

Tuesday
Pleasantly mild across southern parts of Iberia but temperatures east of Poland and across Scandinavia will stay below freezing all day. Heavy rain is expected from Britain into the northern half of France with the south dry. Some rain is likely across northern Spain, fair and dry across the south into the Balearics. After a dry morning rain spreads across the Benelux Countries and Denmark. Cold and sunny weather prevails across Sweden and Norway while heavy snow affects northern parts of Finland with the south dry. Light snow is expected across western Russia with a few snow showers across the Baltic States. Lots of fine, dry weather too to come across central parts of Europe from Germany into Poland, the Adriatic Region and across the Balkans into Turkey. Fine and mostly sunny too across Italy. A number of heavy showers are forecast south of Greece. Strong southwesterly gales will affect Biscay.