Issued: 0530hrs Monday 14th July 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

More unsettled across Scandinavia

Today
High pressure will give western Europe some fine weather today. So for the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and much of Germany expect a dry day with good sunny spells. Very warm for Spain with a few showers developing in the far south otherwise sunny. Expect an area of heavy, thundery showers across the Alpine Region into the former Czech Republic and parts of Romania. Some showers too in the far north of Italy otherwise dry and sunny for much of Italy.
Another warm day across Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Hungary with sunny skies. Another belt of rain will lie from western Russia across the Baltic States into Belarus. Rain too is expected across Norway, northern Sweden and Finland. Highs will be around 21C in both London and Brussels, 24C for Paris, 33C for Madrid, 28C in Rome, 36C in Bucharest, 35C in Athens, 21C in Warsaw and 21C.

Tuesday
A lot of fine, dry weather is expected from the United Kingdom into France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and quite warm for mainland Europe. Hot and sunny today across Spain into the Balearics and Italy with unbroken amounts of sunshine. Quite wet today with some heavy spells of rain for Norway while Sweden looks fine and sunny and light rain affect Finland. Some heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected across Belarus into the former Czech Republic and across western parts of the Ukraine and Romania.
Mainly dry, very warm and sunny conditions will prevail across Bulgaria, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia with just the odd shower. Very warm and sunny through Greece, Turkey and Cyprus today. Dry too for much of Russia and the Baltic States.