Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 26th July 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Chilly in north, hot in south
Today
With low pressure in control another area of rain sweeps in across England today. Mainly dry and mostly sunny across France and the Low Countries until rain arrives late in the day but staying sunny across central and southern France.
Fine and sunny across Germany and much of Poland. Outbreaks of rain will spread across Scandinavia into the Baltic States with sunnier spells and showers replacing the rain across Norway. Heavy, thundery rain will affect Russia. For the rest of Europe and across the Mediterranean Region it stays sunny, dry and very warm.
Saturday
A windy, wet day across Scandinavia as an area of heavy rain across Norway and Sweden spreads into Finland in the afternoon. Just a few showers today across the United Kingdom with more showers expected across the Low Countries and into Denmark. Fine, sunny and pleasantly warm across Germany. Apart from some light rain the far north of France, the country looks mainly fine and dry. There is a risk of heavy thunderstorms across The Alpine Region today.
It remains settled, sunny and very warm across Portugal, Spain into the Balearics, Italy into Greece and Turkey. Still hot across Hungary with unbroken sunshine. Sunny as well for the former Czech Republic and Bulgaria. Sunshine and showers are forecast across Poland, Belarus and Russia with rain across the Baltic Sates.