Issued: 0530hrs Friday 7th September 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Warm across the Mediterranean

Today
An cell of high pressure will give a dry, mostly sunny day to the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Low Countries. Outbreaks of rain are expected across The Ukraine, Poland, Austria and the former Czech Republic where some of it looks heavy.
Rain is forecast for western parts of Norway and eastern parts of Finland otherwise a cool, breezy and dry day for Scandinavia. Rather chilly as well today across eastern Europe. Warm, sunny weather will continue to prevail across Iberia, The Balearics into Italy with sunshine and showers across Greece, Romania and Bulgaria. Sunny and hot across Turkey.

Saturday
A cloudy, damp day with an area of rain across Germany, Poland, Austria and the former Czech Republic. Windy across Scandinavia with sunshine and showers for Norway and rain across Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Holland. Another belt of rain and heavy showers will lie across Romania into the former Yugoslavia.
A fine sunny and warmer day across the United Kingdom, The Low Countries and France. Settled sunny weather will also continued across Portugal, Spain into the Balearics, Italy into Greece and Turkey.