Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 21st July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Temperatures in mid 40s in parts of Europe
Saturday
Plenty of heavy showers to come across the United Kingdom today. An area of rain and showers will also extends across The Netherlands into parts of Poland into southern Belarus and southern France.
Continued dry and mostly sunny across Norway, Sweden and Finland. Dry and fine as well across the Baltic region into the Ukraine and Russia. Late in the day heavy thunderstorms will move into Switzerland. For Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey it remains sunny and dry. It remains extremely hot and dry across Romania, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Slovakia and Hungary.
Sunday
A fresher day across the United Kingdom, The Netherlands into Germany but still hot across eastern Europe. Showers are expected across England and northern parts of France and after morning rain, showers will affect The Low Countries and Germany, some heavy. Heavy rain spreads into Denmark and southern parts of Sweden and Finland with plenty of heavy showers across Poland and the Baltic states today.
Fine and sunny across central and southern parts of France with a few showers across the Alpine Region. For Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey is remains sunny, dry and very warm. Very hot, dry conditions will also persist across Serbia, Croatia, Rumania into Bulgaria.