Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 3rd October 2015
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling
Rain in western Europe, but fair to the east
Saturday
Dry, sunny and very warm in southern Spain and Portugal. Cooler in northern Iberia. Some residual rain for Italy, but becoming brighter most areas. Patchy rain across the Balkan coast.
Dry for Greece and most of Turkey. Areas of rain for southern and central France, some thundery bursts. Patchy rain too across the Alpine states. Dry for Belgium, the Netherlands and much of Germany.
Eastern Europe and the Baltic region also sees dry weather, with a good amount of sunshine, although some morning fog. Feeling warm in Poland. Rain affects western Norway. Rather cool in northern Scandinavia, but it will be quite mild in southern Sweden.
Sunday
Cloud and rain across much of Portugal and northern Spain on Sunday. Dry with sunny spells to the south and east. Dry with sunshine in the Balearics too, and a much direr day over most of Italy too. Greece and Turkey will be dry with more sunshine and will be feeling warm too.
Cloud and rain in western France, the rain heavy at times. Drier to the east with sunny spells here. Remaining dry with further spells of sunshine in the Low Countries and most of Germany, although a few showers in the south. Fair for Poland with further spells of sunshine. Showers in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland.
More sunshine and dry weather to come across Denmark. Sunny and dry in the Baltic States, although a mix of sunny spells and showers in Finland. Further showers across northern Sweden and Norway but dry with sunny spells to the south.