Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 17th July 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Hot across Iberia, eastern Europe
Today
It's a day of sunshine and frequent showers the United Kingdom and France today. An area of heavy rain will lie from Norway across Denmark, The Netherlands into Belgium, Germany and southern France. Fine and dry across Poland into Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus and Hungry with good sunny spells. Showers are forecast across Finland with heavy thundery showers across Russia and western parts of the Ukraine, dry in the east with sunny skies. Just a few sharp showers will develop across the former Yugoslavia and Romania with another sunny and hot day in store for Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Long sunny spells as well across Italy into central and southern Spain while a few heavy showers are possible across north east Spain. Fine and sunny again across the Balearics into Corsica and Sardinia.
Monday
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.