Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 19th September 2018
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Windy and mixed north, fair for most of southern and central Europe


Wednesday
Showers over the east of Spain on Wednesday but dry and warm to the west. Portugal should be fine too with moe sunshine here. Heavy showers or thunderstorms affecting central and northern Italy as well as Sicily. Greece and Turkey should be dry with good spells of sunshine, windy in eastern Turkey.
A few afternoon showers or thunderstorms forming in the south of France but the north should be dry all day with good spells of sunshine throughout. The Low Countries and Germany should be dry with good spells of sunshine too and it stays dry and sunny in Poland. Hungary will be dry with more sunshine but showers forming in Austria and Switzerland.
Denmark will be dry with sunny spells and it stays fine in the Baltic States. Dry and breezy for Finland and Sweden. Norway will be windy and wet with gales in the west.

Thursday
Isolated showers over Spain on Thursday but overall it will be a dry day for Iberia with lots of sunshine, always more cloud to the north. The risk of some thunderstorms in Corsica and Sardinia as well as central and southern Sweden. Greece and Turkey will be dry with good spells of sunshine.
Fair across France and sunny too. Sunshine afecting the Low Countries and Germany whilst Poland will have cloud and some patchy rain. Scattered showers in Austria and Hungary with the risk of a thunderstorm in Switzerland.
A breezy day for Denmark with rain in the north. Windy to with widespread gales in Norway, rain affecting much of the country. Windy for Sweden but dry and warm here. Some cloud in the Baltic States but staying dry. Windy and rain affecting Finland.