Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 3rd July 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Plenty of sunshine across western parts of Europe, but rain and cloud in the northeast

Sunday
Lots of warm sunshine is expected across England into France and down across Portugal and Spain. Mainly dry across Belgium, Holland and Denmark but rather cloudy. Rain is forecast across much of Germany and becomes heavy across Poland with frequent, heavy showers and thunderstorms across Belarus, western Russia, The Ukraine into Romania and Bulgaria. Just a few showers to come across the former Yugoslavia with sunny spells. A number of showers are likely for southern Italy with the north fine an dry. Very warm and sunny across Greece into Turkey. Expect a dry, sunny day across Norway and Finland while showers are expected across Finland.

Monday
A very warm and fine day through Portugal and Spain with plenty of sunshine. It should remain fine and dry across much of central Europe, into France, Germany, Switzerland and Poland too. Some heavy showers across southern France and these could affect Corsica and Sarndinia too.
Fair across Greece and also Bulgaria and Romania. Staying dry and sunny through Turkey too.
Low pressure over eastern parts of Europe will be brigning cloud and rain through much of Denmark and soiuthern Norway. More cloud and some rain for Finland, this heavy at times. Cloud and some drizzly rain for western Norway.