Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 29th September 2007
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Warming up on Sunday from the west
Today
With a strong low over Holland, expect a windy day to come across Scandinavia. A band of locally heavy rain will stretch from Germany across the Low Countries into Norway, Sweden, Finland through the Baltic States across Belarus and the Ukraine. In the afternoon southern parts of Germany will become dry and brighter. Some patchy rain will clear the south east of England but linger across north east France.
Much of France though looks fine and dry with good sunny spells with just the odd shower in the south. Increasingly windy across Portugal as rain spreads in from the west. Spain will be dry and mostly sunny as will the Balearics across into Italy, The Alpine Region. High pressure centred over Italy will also give a fine day to the former Czech and Yugoslav Republics along with Romania and the Balkans. Still quite hot today across Turkey.
Sunday
A dry day to come across England and France with good sunny spells though the far south of France will see some very heavy showers with thunder. A few heavy showers are also forecast across The Low Counties.
Outbreaks of more persistent rain will affect Norway, Sweden, Holland and northern parts of Germany while Finland stays fair and dry. Later the rain should clear northern Germany as it brightens up with some sunshine coming through. A few heavy showers will develop over the Alpine Region with central and southern Germany along with Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine fine and dry. Dry too across the Czech and Yugoslav Republics into Romania and Hungary, Sunshine and showers are in the forecast for Bulgaria with a fine day across Greece and Turkey. Eastern parts of Spain, The Balearics and Italy will be dry and sunny but heavy rain and thunderstorms are likely across Portugal and western Spain.