Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 28th June 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
A fine day through the Mediterranean, but some thunderstorms affect more central areas
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 Balearic's into a hot and sunny Spain and Portugal.
Wednesday
A breezy day across northern parts of Spain and Portugal today. Most of Iberia should be dry with more sunshine here. It should stay fine across the Mediterranean with further spells of sunshine, although southern parts of France could see some thundery showers in the afternoon. Fair for Greece and Turkey with more sunshine here.
Fine across western France, although a band of thundery rain across the Low Countries. That thundery rain affecting western Germany too, although the east of the country and Poland should be fine with sunshine here.
Some cloud and rain over western Norway. For Sweden and Denmark the day should be fair though, some good spells of sunshine here. More sunshine to come through the Baltic States and into Finland and dry here too.