Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 4th July 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine through the Mediterranean
Today
Rain spills down across Britain today. Northern parts of France will be dry and sunny as will be Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Southern parts of France along with Germany and the Alpine Region will have a day of sunshine and showers, many heavy with thunderstorms. A fine, sunny day across Poland into the Baltic States into Russia and Finland. Rain moves into Norway today but a fine day across Sweden. Plenty of sharp showers develop across Belarus into the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. Just a few showers to be found across the former Yugoslavia with lots of sunshine. Again a fine, very warm day across Greece and Turkey. Sunny spells and a few showers today for Italy with Spain and Portugal dry and very warm.
Monday
A dry day for much of England. Just a few showers across the north of France but sunny and warm in central and southern areas. A few showers to across Belgium, Holland and Denmark while much of Germany and western Poland is fine, dry and mostly sunny. A very warm to hot and sunny day across Spain with temperatures in the mid forties in Seville. A fine, warm day to come across much of Scandinavia with lots of sunshine, just a few showers for western Norway. More in the way of heavy showers to come across the Baltic States, eastern Poland into Hungary, Austria, the Ukraine and Romania and some of these will be thundery. Some heavy showers too develop across Italy but fine and sunny across Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.