Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 21st June 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Thunderstorms in southern France and eastern Spain, thundery rain for Finland too

Saturday
Dry and warm for Portugal, but again expect afternoon heavy showers for Spain. A warm and sunny day for France, the Low Countries, Denmark, Germany and Poland. Some heavy showers for the British Isles. A few showers for Norway and Sweden, while a longer spell of rain is expected for Finland. Some rain later for the Baltic States. Dry and sunny for Belarus, while some rain is expected over eastern Ukraine.
Afternoon showers for Switzerland, but sunny for Austria, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. Sunny for Romania and the Balkans.
Dry and sunny for the Balearics, however some afternoon showers are expected over Sardinia and Corsica as well as Italy and southern Greece. Scattered showers for Turkey mostly in the afternoon, while Cyprus will see a sunny and warm day.

Sunday
Heavy thunderstorms in northeast Spain today. Elsewhere sunny spells and very warm, just an isolated shower. There will be further sunshine and hot conditions across the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia. Scattered thunderstorms in central Italy. Fine and hot for Greece and Turkey.
Thunderstorms in the south of France. Fine in northern and western areas of France. Fair for the Low Countries. Heavy showery rain in western Germany, dry in the east and south. Hot and dry as well as sunny for Poland. Hungary is going to be dry with sunshine. More sunshine to come in Austria with thunderstorms over Switzerland.
Clu9d and rain across southwest Norway and Denmark. Fine for the Baltic States with lots of sunshine. More dry weather and sunshine in Finland. Fair for most of Sweden, scattered showers in central areas. Fine for central and northern Norway.