Temperatures will drop, snowfall expected in high places

A cold front will pass through the country overnight and tomorrow from the northwest. Rain will fall in many places in the western regions and the Danube Plain, and will quickly turn to snow in the high fields of western Bulgaria and the Balkan Range. Precipitation will stop in the morning hours and sunny weather will settle in.

Minimum temperatures on Thursday will be between 1°C and 6°C, in the valleys of western Bulgaria - as low as to minus 2°C, and in the southeastern regions and the Black Sea - up to 14°C.

Daytime highs will be between 4°C and 9°C in western Bulgaria and the Danube plain, and between 10°C and 18°C in the southeast and extreme southern regions, the Upper Thracian lowlands and the Black Sea coast. In Sofia temperatures will vary from 1°C to about 4°C.

Over the mountains the clouds will be considerable. Snow will fall in the Balkan Mountains and the massifs of Western Bulgaria, and rain - in the Eastern Rhodopes. Strong and stormy wind will blow from the west-northwest. The maximum temperature at 1,200 m will be about 3°C, at 2,000 m - about minus 2°C.

Along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast it will be cloudy with rain showers. Strong wind will blow from the west-northwest. Maximum temperatures will be between 12°C and 18°C, and the temperature of the sea water at 13°-14°C.