Issued: 0530hrs Monday 12th June 2023
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Easterly breezes around the Low Countries

Monday
Heavy thunderstorms in northern Spain and Portugal. Fair for the rest of Spain and southern Portugal with sunny spells and scattered showers. A few showers in central parts of the Mediterranean with heavier thunderstorms for Italy. Thundery too for mainland Greece and southern Turkey, whilst the Greek islands will be dry and sunny.
Widespread thunderstorms forming over France, these heavy in southern areas. Drier and brighter in the Low Countries. Sunny and dry in Germany and Poland as well as being warm. Fair for much of Hungary. Austria and Switzerland will be wet for many with heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Fair for Denmark with plenty of sunshine. Further sunshine and dry conditions for the Baltic States. Finland will be dry and sunny. Fair for Sweden with sunshine and dry weather here. Scattered showers affecting western and northern Norway with some sunny spells too.

Tuesday
Low pressure to the south brings further extensive clusters of thunderstorms. Western Spain and Portugal are likely to be dry, whilst storms form for eastern Spain and the Pyrenees. Also thunderstorms forming increasingly into afternoon over southern France and the spine of Italy. Local storms also popping up on Corsica and Sardinia, whilst Sicily may escape dry. A few thunde showers for mainland Greece and southern Turkey, but dry over most of the Greek islands.
Northern France, the Low Countries and Germany will be dry with plenty of sunshine. Scattered showers for Poland. A risk of further bursts of thundery rain over the Alps through Switzerland and west Austria. Largely dry for the Balkans and just an off shower for Hungary and northern Austria.
Extensive sunshine for Scandinavia as high pressure over northern Europe maintains dry and warm weather. Chance of a local shower forming in Finland. Breezier in the far north.