Issued: 0530hrs Friday 19th August 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Fine and warm across the Mediterranean
Today
Mainly dry across England today with some sunshine. Fine and sunny across France down across Spain into Portugal across into the Balearics. An area of heavy rain is expected across Norway into Sweden and Denmark with heavy showers across Germany into eastern Poland. Light rain clears the Low Countries in the early afternoon. Much of Finland will have a fine, dry day with sunny spells. A number of heavy showers will affect western Russia but a fine day is expected across the Baltic Stales, south into Belarus into Hungry, the Ukraine and into the former Yugoslavia. Fine and sunny as well and very warm across Greece, Bulgaria into Turkey. Just the odd afternoon shower to come across Italy with much of the country dry, sunny and warm.
Saturday
Lots of fine, dry and warm weather to come across western and central parts of Europe today. Dry with good spells of sunshine across England into France, Belgium, Holland into Denmark and Germany. Showers will affect parts of Norway with a wet day with heavy rain across Sweden, Much of Poland will be dry with sunny spells with heavy rain across the Baltic States and Russia with plenty of heavy showers across Belarus. Mostly sunny and warm across the Ukraine, Hungry, and across Greece and Turkey. This fine weather extends westward across Italy, Corsica, Sardinia into the Balearics, Spain and Portugal.