Issued: 0530hrs Monday 9th July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Continued unsettled, chilly across central Europe Tuesday
Today
Expect plenty of showers, many heavy with a risk of thunder will develop quite widely across the United Kingdom, The Low Countries and France through the day and feeling chilly. An area of rain across Germany will clear to sunshine and showers. This rain will become heavy spreading into Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Rumania.
Continued very warm to hot, dry and sunny from Portugal through Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and into the former Czech Republic and Bulgaria. Cool across Scandinavia with a good deal of cloud and showers, breezy too. It's looking dry and mostly sunny for the Baltic States into Russia.
Tuesday
Unseasonably cool across central and northern parts of Europe today. While it looks drier and sunnier across Great Britain today, further showers will affect Benelux, Denmark and Germany, some locally heavy interspersed with sunny spells. Showers across the Alpine Region may fall as snow over the highest elevation. Persistent rain across France will clear to heavy afternoon showers.
Some showers to come across Poland today with the Baltic States fair and dry. Continued unsettled with sporadic outbreaks of rain to come across much of Scandinavia. An area of showery rain will move across Rumania into the former Czech Republic and Bulgaria. For Iberia, Italy across into the Balkans it will be another sunny and very warm day.