Issued: 0530hrs Friday 20th August 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

More unsettled across Scandinavia

Today
Some rain and showers across Britain today. Across Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Germany it looks to be a fine day with plenty of warm sunshine. Just a few sharp showers today across the French Alps otherwise dry and sunny here. Across Germany into Poland, Hungary and the Ukraine, it will be a fine day with lots of sunshine. High pressure maintains in the east so it looks to stay dry with lots of very warm sunshine across Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and across the former Yugoslavia. A number of heavy showers will affect the Alpine Region with sunny weather across Italy. Fine, sunny and hot today across Portugal and Spain and across into the Balearics. Cooler for Norway and Sweden with a number of heavy showers but dry across Finland with unbroken sunshine.

Saturday
Some showers or rain is expected across parts of England today. The settled, dry and sunny weather across France, Holland, Belgium and Germany will continue with high pressure maintaining. Look for some showers to develop today across Denmark. Much of Norway looks fine and mostly sunny while lots of showers affect Sweden and rain spreads into Finland. For the most part it's a fine day across the Baltic States and Belarus, just the odd shower. Sunny, dry weather is expected across all of Russia, the Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Sunny and very warm as well for the former Yugoslavia into Italy. Some heavy showers will develop over the Alps this afternoon. For Portugal and Spain into the Balearics it remains sunny and very warm.