Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 8th September 2022
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Unsettled with thunderstorms and heavy showers across Europe.

Thursday
Fair in Spain and Portugal with lots of sunshine. Staying fair too through the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia. Showers in the northern half of Italy, fair to the south. Greece and Turkey will be dry again with lots of sunshine.
Heavy showers in central and northern France, fair to the south. Wet in the Low Countries and northern Germany with thundery rain in Poland too. Further thunderstorms affecting Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland.
Breezy in Denmark with some rain in the south but fair to the north. The Baltic States will be breezy and fair. Finland should be dry and sunny. Sweden will be dry with sunny spells. Remaining dry and sunny too in Norway.

Friday
Largely dry and fine across Spain and Portugal but always more cloud and some patchy drizzle to the very far north. One or two scattered showers across the Balearics perhaps into Corsica and Sardinia but mostly dry otherwise. Frequent, heavy showers in northern Italy but mostly dry elsewhere here. Dry and sunny across Greece and Turkey.
Outbreaks of showery rain moving across France, clearing many places in the west through the day. Breezy for many. Unsettled across the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and Austria with showery rain, turning heavy and thundery later. Some rain for the far northeast of Poland, otherwise dry. Showery rain moving into many other regions of eastern Europe later.
With high pressure over Russia ridging into Scandinavia much of Norway, Sweden and Finland will be dry though the very far southern regions here could catch one or two heavier showers. Denmark will be unsettled with heavy showers and or longer spells of rain. These showers moving into southern Baltic states later.