Resumen europeo - 18/12/2016
Settled in the west
Rain, snow in the east

Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 18 December 2016
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski


Showers for the southern Mediterranean, heavy rain for E Spain

Today
Fine and dry with sunny spells across Portugal, western Spain while heavy rain affects eastern Spain. A number of heavy showers are forecast from the Balearics eastward to Sicily. Lots of dry weather to come today across Italy, the Adriatic Region, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey with a few showers in the eastern Mediterranean. Cold with outbreaks of snow across Russia and The Ukraine. Expect a mixture of rain and snow for Poland, The Baltic States, The Czech Republic and Austria. Snow is expected across southern Germany with rain in the north. High pressure will give France, Britain, Belgium, Holland and Denmark a settled dry day. Rain and freezing rain spreads into Norway with much of Sweden and Finland fair and dry. Sub zero temperatures will prevail across much of Turkey and areas east of Poland into Finland. Quite a windy day across the western Mediterranean.



Monday
Some light rain across Britain today. Across Portugal, most of France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark along with Germany and Poland it will be dry with sunny spells. An area of heavy rain is likely across eastern Spain and this heavy rain is also expected across the Balearics into Corsica, Sardinia and may fringe the far south of France and western parts of Italy. Generally cloudy and cold for most of Italy. A dry day to come across Portugal and western Spain. Outbreaks of rain are expected across Norway, Sweden and The Baltic States with further snow likely across Russia and northern parts of the Ukraine. A dry day to come across the Adriatic Region, The Balkans and across all of Turkey. Expect rain across the Baltic States with a dry day expected for Finland.