Issued: 0530hrs Friday 02 Aug 2024
Duty forecaster: John

Saturday 03 Aug
Cloudy with rain Scotland and N.Ireland often prolonged and heavy for a time during the morning with a fresh SW wind, cloudy with outbreaks of rain fringing NE Spain, across to Brittany and northern coastal regions of France France through the morning with further mix of rain and showers continuing Atlantic coastal Spain and Portugal, much of France and Uk, scattered showers and sunshine Netherland, Belgium trhough Germany to Denmark, though maily dry and sunny for Denmark into Sweden and Norway Norway, to Estonia and adjacent Baltic locations. A mix of sunshine and showers for Switzerland Switzerland, across Austria to Czech and Hungary later into Poland hot and humid 26C. Scattered Thunderstorm across Spain Spain through the afternoon and into the evening, Thunderstorms across Italy, widespread through Croatia to Albania, through into Greece and Turkey these into the evening, hot and humid with high UV, generally 30C locally 34C Further rain for UK, France and Netherlands overnight, thunderstorms continuing overnight Romania to Bulgaria.

Sunday 04 Aug July
A mix of rain and thundery showers to start across Romania Romania and into Bulgaria these easing through the morning, whilst showers become frequent and widespread Switzerland, Luxembourg, to Hungary during the afternoon and into the evening 20 to 25C with high UV.For Spain and Portugal Portugal, across France to Italy including Austria mainly dry and sunny becoming hot with increasing humidity near 30C and high UV. Hot with scattered thundery showers southern Italy, across Bosnia to Albania into Greece and Turkey. An area of cloud and rain moving from Atlantic fringing coastal Portugal and northeast Spain, later northwest France.Some prolonged and often heavy spells of rain continuing for Belgium to Denmark to Sweden and Norway and into Latvia Latviaand Estonia, remainig cool 15 to 18C.