Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 30th June 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Thunderstorms across the Balkans

Today
Lots of warm, sunny weather to come across the United Kingdom today and this extends across the north and west of France. Some heavy showers and thunderstorms will affect southern France today. Very hot and sunny across Spain with a high of 44C in Seville. Some heavy and thundery showers will also affect Switzerland and Bavaria today. Sunny and warm into the Low countries a swell as for Holland, Denmark, southern Sweden and the bulk of Germany. High pressure across eastern Europe maintains with a fine, summer's day and long spells of sunshine from Russia into the Baltic States Belarus into Poland and Hungary. Some sunshine but also a number of heavy showers with thunder are forecast to develop across the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and with a few across northern Greece and Turkey. Just the odd shower across southern Italy otherwise it's sunny and warm. Much of Finland looks dry and there will be showers across northern Norway with the south fine and sunny and pleasantly warm across Scandinavia.

Thursday
Wet and windy weather spreads in across western parts of Britain today with coastal gales. For all of France, most of Germany, Belgium, Holland and Denmark it's looking fine dry, mostly sunny and warm. Just a few showers to come in the extreme south of Germany today with some heavy ones and scattered thunderstorms across Switzerland. Just a few showers today across Hungary. Another hot sunny and dry to come across Portugal and Spain. A fine, sunny day for the Balearics across into Corsica, Sardinia and Italy. Lots of warm sunshine as well into Greece and Turkey. Plenty of heavy showers though develop across Bulgaria, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. Some of these showers will also be found across southern parts of the Ukraine with it dry in the north and up into Russia. Sunshine and showers are forecast across The Baltic States into Finland where they will be quite heavy. Better across Sweden and Norway with long sunny spells.