Issued: 0530hrs Monday 18th July 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski

Hottest across Iberia and eastern Europe

Today
Fine, sunny and hot across Spain and Portugal today. This fine weather extends across the Balearics across into Italy, Greece and Turkey. Windy today with lots of heavy showers across England, northern and central parts of France across into the Low Countries into Germany, Norway and Sweden. Fine and sunny in the south of France today. Some showers as well for western Poland in the afternoon but fine and sunny across eastern Poland into Belarus, The Baltic States up into Finland. Fine, sunny and hot too across Russia into the Ukraine,, the former Yugoslavia into Romania and Bulgaria. A n umber of heavy showers are expected across Austria and Switzerland today with a few thunderstorms possible.

Tuesday
More showers to come across the United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Denmark into Sweden. These showers will be interspersed with sunnier spells. A wet day across France with heavy rain with a few showers across western Germany, fine and sunny across eastern Germany across into Poland and the Baltic States. today and still chilly. Rain is forecast across Norway with showers across Finland and some heavy ones across western parts of Russia and Belarus. Mainly fine and sunny across Portugal and Spain today but there is a risk of some heavy showers and thunderstorms around the Balearics. Lots of very warm sunshine across Italy into the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Sunny and hot too across Romania and the Ukraine. Expect some heavy showers across the Alps but dry and sunny across Austria and Hungry.