Issued: 0530hrs Friday 3rd June 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine across Scandinavia
Today
Sunny and warm across England today and this fine weather extends across the channel into most of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and across all of Germany. Just a few showers may affect the south of France and across the Alps. A few showers too in the far south of Poland but dry and sunny and warm across much of Poland, The Baltic States, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Warm with sunny spells across Hungry, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and southern Italy but here a number of heavy showers with scattered thunderstorms will develop. Fine and sunny across Turkey. Fine as well across northern Italy with scattered showers around the Balearics and parts Spain but very warm here with sunny spells as well. Dry and sunny across Portugal. Another fine day across Scandinavia with sunny skies across Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Saturday
Another fine, warm day across England, northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark with sunny spells. This fine weather stretches north into Norway and Sweden and east across into Finland, Russia, Belarus, Poland and across into the Ukraine. Lots of very warm sunshine today across Portugal and Spain with just a few sharp afternoon showers. Sunny across the Balearics but heavy showers and thunderstorms will affect the Alps, Italy, Hungry, Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Some torrential downpours are likely in these showers. Mainly sunny and dry across Romania and western Turkey with heavy showers in the east.