Issued: 0530hrs Monday 1st July 2024
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Cool and showery for northern Europe this week

Monday
Cloudy and often breezy across Norway and southern Sweden with outbreaks of rain. Some sunshine for Denmark, Belgium along North Sea coasts to Brittany though coastal showers likely. Thunderstorms with heavy and prolonged period of rain central and south France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria later into Poland and Lithuania, with scattered thunderstorms northern Italy to Bosnia through the afternoon. Thundery showers developing through the afternoon and persisting into the evening for Spain and later across Greece and Turkey. Overall cool north and northwest, warm to hot and humid central Mediterranean.

Tuesday
Most of Spain and Portugal will be dry, best of sunshine and warmth in the south, some local showers north. Scattered showers for the Balearics and Corsica. Mostly dry for Sardinia. Showery for Italy with some thundery bursts down the spine of Italy by afternoon. Heavy rain and thunderstorms for the Balkans and into western Romania too. Mostly dry for Greece and Turkey.
Showery outbreaks of rain through France and the Low Countries, moving into Germany. Scattered showers for the western Alps, drier for Austria. Fine for Czechia and Slovakia. Rain for northern Poland, drier in the south. Rain too in the southern Baltic region, some thundery rain moving eastwards.
Showery and cool for Norway and northern Sweden. Some patchy rain for Denmark, drier for the south and east of Sweden and southern Finland.