Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 5th July 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Afternoon showers
Today
A wet and windy day to come across the United Kingdom with heavy rain. After a dry morning rain also spread in across the north coasts of France and the Low Countries. Some light rain and showers too for central and eastern France with the south fine, sunny and warm. A very warm day across Germany and apart from a few showers in the east it's fine and sunny. An area of rain and heavy showers will extend from Russia into Belarus, Poland and the Ukraine.
Apart from a few scattered showers across northern Spain, it's sunny and very warm across Iberia. Fine and summery too across the Balearics into Italy. Quite a hot, sunny day to come for Greece and Turkey today. Just a few showers today across the former Yugoslavia with lots of warm sunshine for Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Expect sunshine and showers across Norway, Denmark and Holland with a dry day for Sweden and Finland and the Baltic States.
Sunday
Windy across the United Kingdom with frequent, heavy, thundery showers. Lots of showers too for the north of France into Benelux. Dry across Holland, Denmark and northern Germany and warm with sunny spells. An area of rain and showers will affect southern Germany, northern Poland and southern and eastern parts of France. Very wet with thundery rain today across the Alpine Region.
Fine and sunny across Iberia across into the Balearics and Italy. High pressure keeps Greece, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria warm, dry and sunny. Fine as well across southern Poland, The Baltic States, Belarus and the Ukraine. Rain will fall across southern parts of Norway and Sweden with a mostly sunny day across Finland and Russia.