Issued: 0530hrs Friday 27th July 2018
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Thundery showers and hot in central Europe, fair Mediterranean


Friday
Fair with good spells of sunshine over Spain and Portugal on Thursday. The chance of a shower in the Balearics and over Corsica and Sardinia. Scattered thunderstorms in Italy too. Greece will have more widespread thunderstorms and these will be affecting the west and south of Turkey too.
Scattered thundery showers developing in France. The Low Countries will be dry with sunny intervals and warm too. Germany will be fine as well although some showers in the east. More widespread showers or rain in Poland. Hungary, Austria and Switzerland will all have heavy thunderstorms.
Denmark will be dry with lots of sunshine and warm. The Baltic States will have a few showers with Finland being dry with good spells of sunshine. Norway will be dry and sunny and the fine weather extends into Sweden too.

Saturday
Hot and fair acros Spain and Portugal with plenty of sunshine. Fine weather through the Mediterranean, Corsica and Sardinia as well as Italy. Isolated showers in Greece but fine across Turkey.
Mostly fine in France, hot in the west. Thundery rain across western Germany but the east of Germany should be fair with sunny spells. Showers in eastern Poland but fair to the west. Hungary and Austria should be dry but some heavy thunderstorms affecting Switzerland.
The risk of some heavy rain in Denmark. Further heavy rain over southern Norway and the south of Sweden. Thundery showers over the Baltic States and windy here. Fine and windy in Finland and northern Sweden. Breezy and dry in central and northern Norway too.