Issued: 0530hrs Friday 21st August 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair and dry to the east with lots of sunshine, warm Mediterranean


Friday
Scattered showers in Spain and Portugal on Friday but the vast majority stay dry and sunny as well as very warm. Remaining warm and sunny in the Balearics. Italy will be very warm with plenty of sunshine, but a few heavy showers inland. Fine and sunny in Greece and Turkey.
Fine with good spells of sunshine for France. Very warm here too. Scattered showers in the Low Countries. Fine for much of Germany with plenty of sunshine and staying sunny across Poland too. Dry for Austria, Switzerland and Hungary with plenty of sunshine here.
High pressure continues to bring plenty of sunshine to the Baltic States and Finland. Fine weather staying across Sweden with lots of sunshine. Similar weather for Norway with lots of sunshine here too and staying dry.

Saturday
Thundery showers forming in central and northern Spain on Saturday. Warm and dry to the south, the fair weather affecting much of Portugal too. Scattered showers in the Balearics, but dry and very warm for Italy. Greece should be dry with more sunshine, some showers in northern Turkey but dry to the south with plenty of sunshine here.
Thundery rain in northern and western France, drier to the east and south. A fine day across the Low Countries and Germany as well as Poland with lots of sunshine. Dry and fair through Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland.
A large area of high pressure dominates in Scandinavia bringing sunshine and dry weather here. Denmark and the Baltic States as well as Finland should be staying fair throughout. Sweden and Norway remain dry, more sunshine to come here.