Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 11th July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Temperatures rising across Europe Thursday
Today
The cool weather across central and northern parts of Europe will continue today. For England it's a dry, mostly sunny day to come. For France expect some sunshine too but with a few showers in the east. Cloudy and wet across Germany and Denmark with spells of rain, heavy at times. Showers will develop quite widely across Poland and the Baltic States. With low pressure areas over Scandinavia and area of rain across Norway spreads east into Sweden and Finland.
Apart from the odd afternoon shower across inland parts of Italy it will be staying sunny and very warm across Spain, The Balearics into Greece and Turkey. Some heavy, thundery showers will develop across Serbia, Croatia and Rumania.
Thursday
An area of drizzly rain clears the Untied Kingdom but lingers through the day across northern France, The Low Counties and this spreads into northern Germany later in the day. For Denmark, Poland and The Baltic States it's a day of sunshine and showers.
A large area of hot, sunny weather will prevail from Iberia across the Balearics into southern France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Hot and dry as well for Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. Sunny and warm across the Alpine Region into southern Germany today. For Scandinavia expect plenty of showers, these heaviest across Finland but some sunshine to come too.