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Today, considerable cloudiness expected across the country, with light rain in some places and snow in mountain areas. By the evening the precipitation will stop.

Today, broken middle and high clouds will start to increase and thicken later into the day.

The wind from the west-northwest will increase to moderate, in places to briefly strong in Northern Bulgaria. The daily temperatures will rise reaching highs of between 6°C to 11°C, in Sofia around 6°C.

Today, sunshine will prevail, over Southeastern Bulgaria considerable cloudiness is expected and in some places there will fly light snow. The wind will be from the North-Northeast, it will be weak, in the eastern regions - moderate. Maximum temperatures will typically be between minus 2 ° and 3 °.

Today before noon will remain cloudy with snow, more significant in the mountainous regions. After noon from the North the snow will stop and clear sky is expected, late in the Rila-Rhodopes region. Such is the forecast of the time of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH), announced the FOCUS News Agency 

Today cloud is set to increase from northwest, rain will start at about noon, in the mountains - snowfall. This is the weather forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology told Focus News Agency.

A new cold weather system, dubbed Okeanis by the National Meteorological Service, is to hit the country on Saturday morning, sending temperatures plunging by more than 10 degrees Celsius in some parts and bringing snowfall to much of the country.

The European Union needs to take tougher measures for 16 power plants in 5 Western Balkan countries because the carbon dioxide and microparticles it throws are responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 people each year, reports Dnevnik. 

In Plovdiv the pollution values are 2 times above the allowable, reported Nova TV. 

Dirty air again in Bulgaria. Lack of wind has led to the retention of pollutants in low atmospheric layers. Almost in all major cities stations report an increase in the concentration of fine particulate matter.

 It will be mainly sunny with some more cloud in places for some time during today, chiefly in Northern Bulgaria and along the Black Sea coast. In the morning hours, visibility there will be reduced in places.

Soft weather by the end of February, this shows the mid-term weather patterns presented in Darik this morning.