Issued: 0530hrs Monday 31 October 2016
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Warm and summery across Spain

Today
The weather is set to continue very warm and dry across Portugal and Spain. High pressure will keep western and central parts of Europe settled. Lots of fine, dry weather is forecast from France into England, The Low Countries, into Germany and Poland. Dry as well across Switzerland, Austria and The Czech Republic. Rain will spread into Norway during the day. Cold but dry today across Sweden while snow is expected for eastern parts of Finland and it looks heavy across Russia. Patchy rain to affect the Baltic States. Across the Ukraine expect a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. Lots of dry, sunny weather is expected across Italy and across the Adriatic Region and the Balkan into Turkey. Further heavy showers and rain are expected form near Scilly eastward to Crete. Quite breezy across the eastern Mediterranean.

Tuesday
Just a few showers may develop across parts of Portugal today. More dry, sunny and very warm weather is expected across Spain again today. Lots o dry weather too with sunny spells across France, England, The Low Countries into southern parts of Germany. Some rain to affect northern Germany, southern Sweden, Poland. The Baltic States and Belarus. Outbreaks of heavy snow are forecast for Norway with some snow across parts of Finland and Russia. Expect a fine, settled day across the Adriatic Region, The Balkans ad much of the Ukraine. Scattered showers of rain and snow to affect eastern parts of Turkey today with the west sunnier and mainly dry. A few sharp showers are expected from Malta eastward to Cyprus.