Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 12th July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Temperatures rising and becoming fine
Today
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.
Friday
With high pressure centred in the central Mediterranean, much of the Mediterranean and Europe is looking warmer and fine today. Lots of sunshine will prevail across Portugal, Spain across France, Italy into Austria, Switzerland, Greece and Turkey. An area of heavy rain is expected to affect parts of the United Kingdom today. A fine day to come across the Low Countries. Morning rain across Germany and Denmark will be clearing from the west later in the afternoon and Poland will have sunny spells and a few showers. Low pressure over Scandinavia will keep it unsettled with sunshine and showers, some heavy.