Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 9th July 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Showery north and east Europe

Today
Expect another day of sunshine and showers across England, Norway, northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands into Denmark, western Germany and Sweden. Fine and sunny across eastern Germany, the south of France and southern parts of Germany. Warm and sunny across Poland while heavy showers will affect the Baltic States, western Finland and Russia. Sunny and warm across eastern parts of Finland. Hot and mainly dry across the Ukraine, Hungry, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. Fine and sunny across the Mediterranean today with sunny, warm weather across Italy. A few showers may affect the far north of Spain otherwise hot, dry and sunny across Spain and Portugal.

Sunday
Just a few showers to come across England today with sunny spells. More in the way heavy showers are forecast for northern and central France into western parts of Germany and across the Alpine Region into Hungry and Poland. Fine, sunny and warm across the south of France. Just a few showers across the north of Spain otherwise sunny, dry and hot. Fine, sunny weather will extend from Spain across the Balearics into Italy. Lots of warm sunshine across the former Yugoslavia into Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Romania and The Ukraine. Mostly sunny and dry across the Baltic States, Belarus into Finland. Hot but showery across Russia with heavy thunderstorms and heavy showers. Plenty of heavy showers too to come across Norway and Sweden. Mainly dry for Belgium and Holland with sunshine and showers across Denmark.