Issued: 0530hrs Monday 21st June 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Warm across much of Europe
Today
High pressure will be dominating much of western Europe today. So a fine, sunny and warmer day to come across Britain with lots of sunshine as well into France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Germany. An area of rain and heavy showers is expected across the Baltic States down into Belarus, the western Ukraine, Poland into Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. Just a few light showers are possible across Greece with a sunny, dry day across all of Turkey. Things improve today across Italy with just a few showers. The fine, very warm and sunny weather continues across Spain and The Balearics today. Across much of Scandinavia it will remain a bit chilly but Norway, Sweden and Finland all will be dry with some good sunny spells. A warm, dry day in store for much of Russia.
Tuesday
The fine, dry and mostly sunny weather is going to persist across England into France, Belgium, Holland and into Demark. Just some patchy early mist at first. Apart from a few showers across Bavaria, much of Germany looks dry with sunny spells. Eastern parts of Poland and thee Baltic States will have rain during the day while frequent, heavy showers with scattered thunderstorms affect Belarus, The Ukraine and Romania. For western Poland a lot of fine, sunny weather to come and this is to extend north into Norway, Sweden and Finland with lots of sunshine. Heavy rain is forecast today across the former Yugoslavia with showers into Albania and Romania. Mainly dry today across Hungary with much of Greece and Turkey having a dry, sunny and warm day. A lot of cloud today will be found across Italy with outbreaks of rain and showers. Sunny and very warm weather is forecast across Portugal, Spain and the Balearics. Just a few showers to come across Austria and Switzerland. Still very warm today in the east and across Iberia.