Issued: 0530hrs Friday 29th September 2023
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Thundery showers for Greece

Friday
A fine day across Spain and Portugal. The Balearics also seeing dry and sunny weather. Much of Italy will be dry with plenty of warm sunshine, though far southern areas again will see a few developing showers. Greece sees heavy showers, mostly towards the mainland, while the islands stay largely dry. Turkey sees a few showers develop.
Some patchy rain along the northern coasts of France which push across Belgium and Holland. Sowers moves in across northern Germany, though southern areas stay dry and fine. Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the rest of eastern Europe are sunny and dry.
Patchy rain clearing Denmark from the north through the day. Feeling cooler here too. Possible showers in the Baltics, though mostly dry. Windy across southern regions of Norway, Sweden and Finland though largely dry. Northern areas will see outbreaks of rain.

Saturday
High pressure continues to reside over western Europe bringing lots of warm sunshine to Spain, Portugal and France. Very warm, topping 30C in places, locally into the mid-30s in southwestern Iberia. Lots of sunshine through the western Mediterranean and Italy too. Risk of showers toward the far south of Italy. Thundery downpours for southern Greece and much of Turkey.
A cold front passes eastwards across central-eastern Europe. Rain clearing from Germany to leave sunny spells. A few showers for Czechia and Austria. A spell of rain for Poland and Slovakia. Mostly dry for the Balkan states and toward the Black Sea.
Low pressure over Scandinavia brings cool and windy conditions. Rain then showers for the Baltic states and Finland. Frequent showery rain for Norway, but drier and brighter for Sweden and Denmark, just passing showers.