Issued: 0530hrs Monday 21st July 2008
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine through the Mediterranean
Today
A fine, sunny day across England today. Fine too across the Low Countries but outbreaks of steady rain will fall across the Netherlands and much of Germany today. Very unsettled and quite breezy across Scandinavia with plenty of heavy showers and longer spells of rain. Rather wet to across northern parts of Poland, Belarus, The Baltic States and western parts of Russia with showery rain, heavy in places. Across Spain and Portugal it's going to be another hot one and dry with temperatures over 40C in the south west. Fine and sunny too across the Balearics into Sardinia and Corsica.
Warm for Italy but with a few showers for the afternoon across central and northern areas. Mostly fine across the Alpine Region with some showers expected across the former Yugoslavia. Fine, sunny and warm weather too for Hungary and Bulgaria. Highs will be around 21C in London, 20C for Brussels, 21C for Paris, 37C for Madrid, 30C in Rome, 35C in Bucharest, 36C in Athens, 20C in Warsaw and 20C for Stockholm.
Tuesday
Much warmer across the United Kingdom with low cloud breaking to sunshine. Fine and warm too across Belgium. Still unsettled across Germany with outbreaks of rain and showers though it turns dry and sunnier in the west in the afternoon. Fine and sunny today across the Netherlands and Denmark and it will be dry across Norway and northern Sweden with some heavy showers in the south. Cloudier across Finland with outbreaks of rain and this extends south across the Baltic States.
A dry, summer's day across Russia today. A belt of heavy showers will affect Belarus and the Ukraine through the day with an area of heavy, thundery rain moving into Romania, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria as it clears the former Czech Republic. Continued very hot and sunny across Portugal and Spain with temperatures over 40C in the south west. Sunny weather also prevails across the Balearics into Italy though a few showers may affect the far south. Very warm and sunny weather will prevail across Turkey, Hungary and Greece.