Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 26th June 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Showers across Italy

Today
Just a few showers today across England, eastern parts of France and northern parts of Spain. Otherwise it's a fine, dry day with sunny spells. Still hot across Spain and Portugal. Lots of warm sunshine will be found across Belgium, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden into Germany and Poland today with high pressure dominating. A fair, dry day to come across Bulgaria and Romania with sunny spells across Greece and lots of showers through Turkey. Across Italy it's a day of sunny spells and showers but fine across Corsica, Sardinia into the Balearics. For the Baltic States into Russia lots of very warm sunshine to be found but plenty of heavy showers will affect Finland.

Sunday
Very warm and sunny across the United Kingdom today and it's the same across the channel into Belgium, Holland, Denmark into Germany. Sunny, warm weather will also prevail across Poland into the Baltic States, Belarus and up into Finland, Sweden and Norway. Just a few showers across France but lots of warm sunshine as well. Heavy showers are forecast across Russia today and these extend down into the Ukraine, into the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. Fine and sunny into Greece and much of Turkey today. Northern parts of Spain may catch a shower but for much of Portugal and Spain it's sunny and hot. Sunny as well across the Balearics into Sardinia and Corsica but it's a day of sunshine and showers for Italy. Heavy showers too to come across the Alpine Region with thunder.