Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Hot across Spain, the Balkans

Today
A large area of high pressure is going to produce a fine, summery and warm day from the United Kingdom across into France, the Low Countries and into Germany. Hot and sunny weather will also prevail across Portugal, Spain across the Mediterranean into Italy as well. Just one or two showers today over the Alpine Region of Switzerland. Fine and sunny across Austria. A few showers to come today for Denmark while an area of rain and heavy showers affects eastern Poland, The Baltic States, The Ukraine, Romania into Turkey. Some of these showers will produce torrential downpours of rain and will be accompanied by thunderstorms. Mostly fine across Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia into Greece with sunny spells and very warm. Western parts of Poland look dry but with a lot of cloud. Again a dry, pleasantly warm and sunny day across Norway, Sweden, Finland and into Russia as well.

Thursday
Quite a warm day across Europe today with lots of fine, summery weather. More cloudy across England today with a few showers. Plenty of sunshine to come across Spain and France and it's a hot one across southern Iberia today. A few showers too develop across Belgium and Holland today with a few across the south of Germany. Northern Germany should be fair and dry. More in the way of showers are expected across Switzerland and Austria today while pre persistent rain is expected across Poland into the Baltic States. Heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely across Belarus today but fine, warm and dry across Russia. Another fine, sunny day across Norway, Sweden and Finland. A dry day to come across the Balkans with lots of very warm sunshine to come. Much of Italy as well will be settled and dry with sunny spells, maybe just the of shower in the far north of the country.