Issued: 0530hrs Friday 19th October 2012
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Wet across Spain

Today
Rain is expected across eastern England and across the west of France into western Belgium, western Holland, Denmark and Sweden. Cloudy but mainly dry across Norway with rain expected across France. Fair and dry weather can be expected from eastern France into eastern parts of Belgium, Holland and across all of Germany and Poland. High pressure will keep is it settled with plenty of sunshine to come across Italy, Greece and most of Turkey. Fine across the Balkans with sunny spells for the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungry, Austria and the Czech Republic. Heavy rain and heavy showers are expected across Spain but dry across Portugal. Showers are forecast across the Balearics with southerly gales from Sardinia into the south of France.

Saturday
Mainly dry across England today with sunny spells. Cloudier across much of France with rain in the east, drier and sunnier in the west. Very windy again across southern France. An area of rain will extend from Sweden, Norway into Denmark, The Netherlands into Belgium. High pressure to the east will give fair, dry weather to Germany, Poland, The Baltic States, Finland and Belarus. Lots of dry, sunny weather will be found across The Ukraine, Hungry, Austria, the Czech Republic, the former Yugoslavia into Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey and this extends west across Italy. A few showers will be around Sardinia and the Balearics. Heavy rain and showers will affect Spain but dry across Portugal.