Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 31st August 2010
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Hottest across southern Spain
Today
High pressure will give England and France a fine day with long sunny spells. Lots of sunshine too across so a better day here with just a few scattered showers. Dry and sunny as well for Belgium with scattered showers across Holland and Denmark. Southern parts of Norway and Sweden will be dry and sunny but showers affect the north. Much more unsettled for Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus, Hungary and into the Ukraine with plenty of heavy showers and longer spells of rain. Mostly fine and sunny across Finland today but cool across northern Europe. Mainly dry and fine across the former Yugoslavia with sunny spells and a few showers across Romania and Bulgaria. For Greece and Turkey expect loots of warm sunshine and this extends west across Italy into Corsica and Sardinia. Hottest today across Spain and Portugal with a dry, sunny day to come.
Wednesday
The fine, sunny weather across south east Europe will continue with very warm sunny day across Romania, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia into Greece and Turkey. Sunny and hot across Portugal into Spain, the Balearics into Italy. For eastern Germany, Poland, Belarus, the Baltic States, Russia into the Ukraine we can expect more heavy showers, merging into longer spells of rain. Sunnier and mainly dry for Norway, Finland and Sweden with just the odd shower. Lots of sunshine and dry again to across England, France and across into western Germany and into Switzerland and Austria. For Belgium, Holland and Denmark it's looking fine and dry but with a cool north wind.