Issued: 0530hrs Monday 27th June 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Hot for western Europe
Today
Rain and showers to come across England today but still very warm with a risk of heavy thunderstorms and some too across northern France. Sunny and hot across Spain, Portugal and much of France. Heavy rain spreads into Norway but sunny and dry across Sweden and south into Denmark, Germany and much of Poland, just a few showers in the far south. Mainly dry across the Low Countries , Holland into Denmark and Germany with sunny skies. Rain clears from Finland but it looks wet across western Russia into the Ukraine. Expect a scattering of showers across the former Yugoslavia and Romania with lots of warm sunshine across Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Another fine, sunny and warm day across Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Tuesday
A band of thundery rain will affect western Norway, eastern parts of England into France but dry and sunny across southern France today. Fair, warm and dry across Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Lots of sunshine today across Sweden into Finland, The Baltic States and down across Poland into Germany. An area of heavy, thundery rain will affect Russia, Belarus, all of the Ukraine into northern parts of Romania. Across southern Romania, Hungry, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey expect a warm, sunny day. This summery weather also extends westward across Italy across Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearics into a hot and sunny Spain and Portugal.