Issued: 0530hrs Monday 7 December 2015
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Snow across Russia

Today
Very windy across northern parts of Europe today and also across the east with gales. High pressure centred over central Europe will give a good deal of fine, dry weather from Spain eastward across into France, Germany, The Low Countries, The Balkans and the Adriatic Region. Dry with lots of sunshine too across Norway, Sweden and Finland. Cloudy, wet and windy across Russia with outbreaks of rain with snow in the east. Some rain spills in across Portugal with scattered, heavy showers around Corsica, Sardinia and Scilly. Dry with sunny spells across Italy and Turkey.

Tuesday
Windy today with south westerly gales in the channel and across Britain while north westerly gales prevail across eastern parts of Europe. A band of rain clears England and spreads in across northern France and affects Portugal, northern Spain along with Belgium, Holland and Sweden with snow flurries across Norway. Fine with sunny spells for southern parts of Spain and southern France into Germany, Denmark, Poland, Belarus, The Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Cold with snow across Russia. Largely dry but a cloudy, windy day across Finland. Most of Italy looks dry while a few sharp showers will be found near Corsica and Sardinia. A fine, dry and mostly sunny day is expected across the Adriatic Region along with the Balkan States. Fine as well across Turkey with sunny spells.