Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 15th May 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Hot across Spain
Today
Lots of fine, dry weather to come across England, France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Continues hot and sunny across Spain and Portugal and into the Balearics into Corsica and Sardinia. Scattered showers are forecast for Germany and southern parts of Italy with northern Italy, dry. An area of heavy rain and heavy showers is forecast for the western parts of the Ukraine across into Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Adriatic Region. A few showers and sunny spells to come across Greece. A fine, warm day is expected across Turkey while a few heavy showers are expected for Bulgaria. Most of Romania, the eastern half of the Ukraine and most of Russia should be dry and eastern parts of Poland could see some heavy rain with the west dry. Outbreaks of rain and snow will affect Norway with rain across northern Sweden with the south dry. Apart from the odd shower, much of Finland should be fair and dry. Very strong easterly winds will also prevail through the Straits of Gibraltar and along the northern coast of Spain. It will also be quite windy across southern France and down through the Adriatic Sea.
Friday
Today strong easterly winds to gale force will affect northern Spain and Straits of Gibraltar. The hottest temperatures today will be across Spain, Portugal, eastern parts of the Ukraine, southern Russia and Turkey. It will be dry with lots of sunshine across Portugal, Spain, France, England and across the Low Countries into much of Germany. An area of heavy rain is forecast across Poland down through the Czech Republic, Hungary and across into the Adriatic Region and southward into much of Italy. Expect some heavy, thundery showers across Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. Much of Turkey will be fine and sunny. Some rain to come across northern parts of Norway, otherwise a dry day with sunny spells across southern Norway, Sweden, the Baltic Region and much of Russia. Spells of rain will affect Finland.