Issued: 0530hrs Monday 29th August 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
A few showers for Italy
Today
Mainly dry across England today and fine and sunny south across all of France. Plenty of heavy showers to come across Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, the far north of Germany and across Finland and the Baltic States with strong gales in the North Sea into southern Scandinavia. Fine and sunny into Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Hungry, Romania into the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. Some heavy showers may affect the Aegean and southern parts of Italy. Dry and sunny across northern Italy across into Spain and Portugal. Very windy across Denmark, southern Sweden and then the Baltic Region.
Tuesday
Lots of heavy showers to come across Finland into northern Russia with rain expected across Sweden and Norway. Expect some showers to across Denmark into northern Germany with southern Germany again fine and sunny. The fine weather across much of Europe is set to continue with dry, sunny weather from France into the Alps, into Hungry, The Ukraine into Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Across Italy expect lots of warm, sunny weather but a few heavy showers may develop in the afternoon. Across the Balearics into Spain and Portugal with a dry, sunny day as well across all of France. More showers though will affect Belgium and The Netherlands.