Issued: 0530hrs Christmas Day 2016
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Showers for the eastern Mediterranean

Today
Fine and dry with sunny spells across Portugal, Spain. Cloudy and windy across northern France, England, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany into Poland, The Czech Republic and Austria with outbreaks of rain. The rain looks heaviest across Poland. Mainly dry but cold across the Baltic States today. Sub zero temperatures to affect Russia, Belarus and The Ukraine with outbreaks of heavy snow. Snow is also likely across Romania. Fair and dry across the Adriatic Region into Greece, Bulgaria and western Turkey. Outbreaks of snow and rain to affect eastern Turkey with showers from Crete to Cyprus. Fine and dry across Italy with sunny spells. Cold but a dry day to come across Norway and Sweden while snow is likely across Finland.

Boxing Day
Colder across Britain but dry. Rain is expected across northern France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus, western parts of the Ukraine into Romania where it will be mixed with snow. Fine today with sunny spells across the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and across the Adriatic Region. Fine and sunny as well across Greece with light rain into Bulgaria. Across much of Turkey expect outbreaks of snow with showers across the eastern Mediterranean. Across Portugal, Spain and the e south of France it will be fine, dry and mostly sunny. Heavy snow showers are forecast for Norway with rain and snow in the south of Sweden. Heavier snow is expected across Finland with snow across Russia. Further gales to affect northern Britain, the North Sea into the Baltic.