Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 12th July 2014
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Fair Mediterranean, showers and rain to north
Saturday
Hot and sunny across Portugal and Spain today. Fine as well across the Balearics. Much of Europe is looking very unsettled but quite warm. Heavy showers are forecast for much of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and across into the Adriatic Region along with the Czech Republic, Hungary, southern Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine. Some of the showers will carry the risk of thunder the risk of heavy thunderstorms across Belgium and Holland to give some torrential downpours of rain.
Northern parts of Poland along with the Baltic States and most of Russia should be very warm to hot with sunny spells. Quite warm and quite sunny again across much of Scandinavia, although a few heavy showers may again affect western parts of Norway. Southern parts of France should remain sunny and dry but staying very windy with a strong mistral continuing to blow down across southern France through Corsica and Sicily. Very warm across Italy with sunny spells but late in the day a few heavy showers will develop. Greece and Turkey can expect a very warm, sunny, summery day.
Sunday
A fine day for Spain and Portugal on Sunday. There will be lots of sunshine and it will be feeling very warm too. Staying fine for the Balearics with more sunshine throughout. A fine day in much of Italy, although a few showers to the north. Fair through Greece and Turkey with sunny spells.
Cloud and rain in northwestern France but for most of the country it should be dry with sunny spells. Rain and cloud through the Low Countries and this affecting northern Germany as well.
A cloudy and wet day for Denmark with strong winds. More rain across southern Sweden and some showery bursts of rain through the Baltic States too. Some hefty showers forming in Finland. Norway is likely to be brighter with some good sunny spells.