Issued: 0530hrs Monday 19th August 2024
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Fine southern France and Iberia

Monday
A dry day for Portugal and Spain with lots of sunshine. Try to in the Balearics. Some more showers affecting Corsica and Sardinia with further heavy showers in Italy, some of these torrential in the north. Greece should be dry with lots of sunshine and it stays hot and sunny in Turkey.
a dry day in France with good spots of sunshine. Dry too in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as Germany. Sunshine in Poland although some rain in the far south-east. Austria will have some heavy thunderstorms and that is extend into Hungary. Better in Switzerland where it will be dry with sunny spells.
Denmark will have a fair day with lots of sunshine here. Staying dry and sunny across the southern half of Norway and for most of Sweden as well as the Baltic states. Some rain affecting Finland and this extends into the far north of Norway and northern Sweden. Western parts of Norway may be breezy with a few showers running along the coast.

Tuesday
Fine for most of Spain and Portugal, although some showery rain in the north of Spain. Sunshine for the Balearics. Local showers forming for Corsica and Sardinia. Showery for much of Italy. Unsettled for the Balkans and Greece, with showers and thunderstorms forming. Drier over the Greek islands. Fine for Turkey and Cyprus.
A cold front moves across northern France and the Low Countries bringing a spell of rain, showers follow. Fine and warm in southern France and much of Germany. Showers developing over the Alps, some heavy by afternoon in Austria. Scattered showers for Hungary and Czechia. Dry for Romania.
Warm and humid for Poland into the Baltic region with southerly winds. Dry for Sweden and Finland with warm sunshine. Heavy rain affects Norway as a front sweeps in from the west.