Issued: 0530hrs Friday 26th August 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Hot through central & eastern Europe
Today
Frequent heavy showers with thunder are expected across England today with an area of heavy rain across France and Belgium but dry in the extreme south of France. Rain too is forecast across Norway into Sweden with some heavy showers across Denmark and the extreme west of Germany. A strong cell of high pressure is going to give a large part of central and eastern Europe a fine, settled and sunny day. This fine weather stretches from central Germany across Poland into Russia and Finland and south across Romania, Hungry, the Ukraine into the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. A few showers for north west Spain today but mostly dry, sunny and hot across Portugal, Spain and eastward across the Balearics into Italy.
Saturday
Still expect sunshine and showers across Britain today and these will also affect France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. An area of rain is forecast from Norway into Sweden into Germany today with heavy showers across the Alps. That strong area of high pressure across eastern Europe will continue to keep it fine, settled and sunny from Poland across into the Baltic Region, Finland, Russia and down into The Ukraine. Lots of warm, sunny weather to come across the Balkans today and this will extend west across Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic into Spain and Portugal.