Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 18th July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Very hot, dry across eastern Europe
Wednesday
Hot across the Mediterranean and very hot across Slovakia, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic where temperatures will soar to 40C. Dry here with unbroken sunshine. A number of sharp showers will affect the United Kingdom, The Low Countries, northern parts of Germany, Switzerland and parts of Austria. An area of more persistent rain is likely across Poland and Belarus with a dry, sunny day across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.
Central France looks dry while showers affect the north and south. It remains fine and sunny from Portugal into Spain, The Balearics, Italy into the Balkans. A rather windy day for much of Scandinavia with rain and showers though mainly dry for eastern parts of Sweden.
Thursday
Hot across the Mediterranean and very hot across eastern parts of Europe. An area of showers will develop from Poland into Switzerland into southern France. Sunshine and showers are also forecast for much of the United Kingdom with just a few across northern France, Denmark and the Low Countries. Mostly sunny and dry across Norway and Sweden but rather wet for Finland today. Apart from a dew showers across northern Spain it continues to be very warm and sunny across Iberia into Italy, Greece and Turkey. Sunny today across the Baltic States with a few light showers for Russia. Continued very hot across the former Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.