Issued: 0530hrs Monday 19 May 2014
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Cooling off across Iberia
Today
Today sees temperatures rising across much of Europe as it becomes quite warm. Showers will affect England down through western parts of France and northern parts of Spain and Portugal and, some of these could turn heavy with isolated thunderstorms. Southern parts of Poland and Spain across to the Balearics should be fine and sunny. Most of eastern France should be dry today with sunny spells. A number showers are also in the forecast for Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the far north of Italy and Austria. Most of Italy today should be fair and dry. A better day to come across the Adriatic Region. Lots of warm sunshine to come just the odd shower cross Bulgaria. Eastern parts of Turkey could still see some heavy showers with western parts of Turkey along with Romania to the dry today with sunny spells. A cloudier day across Greece with the odd shower. Expect a day of sunny spells and showers across Poland and Belarus with heavier showers possible across the Baltic States, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. It Remains very warm, dry and sunny across most of Russia. Quite a windy day to come across the south of France.
Tuesday
While temperatures won't be as high across Spain and Portugal today, it looks quite warm across a good part of Europe. Expect and unsettled day with showers and some longer spells of rain to come across United Kingdom, northern and western parts of France across into Belgium and Holland. Southern parts of France be quite windy but dry. More cloud come across Spain and Portugal with the risk of showers these extends eastward across into Balearics. Apart from a few showers around the coasts, much of Germany and Denmark will be dry with sunny spells. Scattered showers are forecast across the Alps and across parts of Italy. Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland should be fine and dry with sunny spells. Just the odd shower may develop across the Adriatic Region, otherwise it looks dry, sunny and very warm. A showery day to come across Norway and Sweden but dry with sunny spells for Finland. Some heavy showers scattered thunderstorms are possible across the Baltic. Fair and dry into Belarus. Eastern parts of the Ukraine along with Romania, Bulgaria, and eastern parts of the Ukraine. Greece and Turkey should be fine and dry. It will be quite windy from the Balearics towards Sardinia today.