Issued: 0530hrs Friday 16th September 2016
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Rain and showers for Italy and Greece, mostly fair central and western Europe


Thursday
Hot and dry again in southern Spain and Portugal, temperatures over 30C. Small risk of a local shower near some southern Costas and toward the Pyrenees. Nearer 20 to 25C in northern Spain. Dry across the Mediterranean. Scattered showers for Italy, but a brighter day overall for much of the country. Thunderstorms more widespread for Greece.
Much of central & northern Europe will be dry, temperatures 20 to 23C, in northern France, the Low Countries & Germany, but up to 27 to 30C in south-west France. Dry across the Alps. Drizzly rain for eastern Poland and Ukraine. Rain edges into Norway from the west, but most of Scandinavia stays dry under the influence of high pressure, 18C in southern Sweden and Denmark. Low pressure over western Russia brings cool and wet weather.

Friday
Fair for Portugal and much of Spain today with plenty of sunshine. Showers affecting northeast Spain. Mostly dry in Italy, again with some good spells of sunshine here, although there will be an odd shower. Greece brings sunny spells and scattered showers although Turkey will be dry and fair throughout.
France should be fine with plenty of sunshine. A few showers for the Low Counties and for Germany too, although mostly fair to the south. Poland stays dry with some reasonable sunny spells, and it should be dry across Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland.
Some cloud and a few spots of rain in Denmark. The Baltic States will have sunny spells and mostly dry weather. Cloud and some rain in Finland and cool here too. Rain and showers affecting Norway, some of this heavy at times in the west.