Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 30th April 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Thundery showers in France, parts of Iberia, and the southeast.

Thursday
Thundery showers affecting eastern and northern Spain today. Fair in central and western areas as well as in Portugal, a few scattered showers. Sunny spells for the Balearics and northern Italy. A few showers in central and southern Italy, as well as Sardinia and Corsica. Greece and Türkiye will be dry with sunny spells overall, a few scattered showers in south Türkiye, then heavy thunderstorms in northern Greece later.
Thundery showers developing in central and western France but staying sunny in the north. The Low Countries and Germany should be dry and fine with good sunshine as well, though a notable easterly wind here. Hungary and Austria are going to be dry and sunny. Switzerland stays dry with more sunshine, although some showers in the west. Poland is going to be dry with a mix of cloud and sunshine. Heavy rain in southern Romania in the morning moves south, the day likely widely rainy and often heavy in Bulgaria.
Fair for Denmark with plenty of sunshine. Staying fine too in the Baltic States with a mix of cloud and sun, the most sun near the coasts. Sweden stays fair and mostly sunny too with warm temperatures. Sunshine and warm for the south of Norway but wind and cloud to the north with rain and sleet in the far north of Norway. Sun increasingly breaking out in south and west Finland, dry here except for some early snow in the far north.

Friday
More thundery showers in east and northern Spain, the rest of Iberia dry with sunny spells. Dry and often sunny in the Balearics and Sardinia and Corsica. A few showers in Sicily, the rest of Italy dry and sunny. Widely rainy in Greece from overnight, tending to break but remaining showers in the west. Rain across northwest Türkiye, some afternoon showers breaking out in the south.
Warm across France, outbreaks of heavy showers, mostly western areas. Northeastern France stays dry, as do the Low Countries and west Germany, which will also be warm. Switzerland, Austria, and Czechia stay sunny as well. A mix of cloud and sun in Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary, though dry here, and may trend sunnier late in the day. Scattered showers in Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria, sunny spells too.
Staying warm and sunny in Denmark and southern parts of Sweden and Norway. Mild in southern Finland too and sunny here. Largely sunny in the Baltic States too, some cloud in the east with a small chance of an odd shower. Mixed cloud and sun in northern Scandinavia, some wintry showers in north Norway and northwest Sweden.