Issued: 0530hrs Monday 3rd October 2011
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine, warm and sunny over central and southern Europe but cloud and cooler weather to the north

Monday
It's another sunny and very warm day across England with rain across northern Britain. Most of Europe again will have a fine, summery day with morning fog patches clearing to lots of unseasonably warm sunshine from Iberia across France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark into Germany, Poland, Belarus into the Ukraine.
Southward across Hungry, the former Yugoslavia into Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. A number of heavy showers with isolated thunderstorms south of Italy to Malta. Lots of warm sunshine will be on offer across Austria, Switzerland across the Alps into Spain and Portugal. A cool, cloudy day across Norway with some rain across Sweden but dry and sunnier across Finland and the Baltic States.

Tuesday
High pressure brings another fine day across Spain and Portugal. This sunshine extends into the Mediterranean giving more sunshine across the Balearics and into Italy. Further dry and sunny weather for Greece and Turkey.
More sunshine and dry weather in France, Switzerland and Austria as well as Germany and Poland. There will be some cloud affecting the coasts of the Low Countries and northern Germany. Fair for western parts of Russia with plenty of sunshine in Bulgaria and Romania.
A rather more unsettled pattern of weather across northern Europe. There will be wind and some showers through the UK. This cooler and showery weather extending into Sweden where it will be windy too. Further cloud and some outbreaks of rain through Finland and the Baltic States.