Issued: 0730hrs Friday 16 Aug 2024
Duty forecaster: John

Saturday 17 Aug
Cool with sunshine and blustery showers for Scotland and N.Ireland, cloudy with rain for southern and coastal Norway Norway, sunshine and variable cloud Norway and Denmark with scattered showers southern Sweden 15 to 18C. Cloudy with outbreask of rain prolonged and often heavy through France, Belgium Belgium, Netherlands, north and central Germany running into Poland through to Ukraine, 20C near and along coasts 25 inland. Dry fine and sunny, becoming hot across inland Portugal and Spain Portugal, 20C for Atlantic coasts, 35C inland, with height with high UV. Sunshine and frequent, likely thundery showers Switzerland, Austria to Hungary, into Romania to Bulgaria generally hot 30C with high UV. Thunderstorms across Italy, 30C, Croatia to Albania Albania 30 to 35C, high UV coasts and mountains. Mix of rain and thnderstorms continuing overnight France to Poland, 15 to 18C.

Sunday 18 Aug
Thunderstorms and prolonged periods of rain continuning across southern France, through Switzerland Switzerland, through Austria, all of Italy, to Poland scattered into Romania to Greece, warm generally hot and humid Italy Italy Mix of sunshine and showers for Scotland Scotland, to southerrn Norway and Swedent, including Denmark 15C generally, Staying dry fine and mostly sunny for Wales and England, though with scattered showers for N.Ireland 20 to 23C. Fine, sunny and hot for most of central and southern Spain 30 to 35C, coastal fringes a mix of sunshine and showers frunning off Atlantic, 20C, high UV with sunshine interior Spain.