Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 10th August 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine and sunny for most of Europe although some showers or rain in Scandinavia

Sunday
More hot sun across Iberia with scattered showers in north Spain. Fine across the central Mediterranean islands. Hot with extensive sunshine for Italy and eastward through the Balkan States to the Black Sea. Also fine in Greece and Türkiye; a notable northerly breeze through the Aegean Sea.
Hot again southern France and widely sunny. Mild-to-warm temperatures from the Low Countries eastward into Czechia and Poland - mostly sunny here. Fine for Austria and Switzerland, a few local showery moments in the Alps. Some morning showers in central Poland will drift east and become locally thundery in the afternoon. Hot in Hungary and Slovakia, some thundery showers in eastern Slovakia later in the day. These thundery showers later drifting into west Ukraine and Belarus.
Rain onto Norway's west coast and northern areas, southern central and east areas dry with good sunshine. Similarly dry and sunny in Sweden with only showers in the north, locally heavy or thundery. Notable chance of afternoon showers in southern and central Finland, though locally entirely dry. Rain more widespread across the Baltic States with greatest risk of thundery rain in Latvia and Lithuania.

Monday
A few showers in northeast Spain on Monday although for most areas it will be fine and sunny. Staying sunny and dry across Portugal too. More sunshine for the Balearics as well as in Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will heva a sunny day and it will be dry. Further sunshine in Greece and this extends to Turkey where it will be staying hot.
Scattered showers for the far south of France but generally dry and sunny throughout. More sunshine in central and northern France as well as for the Low Countries and Germany. Poland stays dry with more sunshine here. Further sunshine and dry weather in Hungary, Austria and most of Switzerland although a few afternoon showers in the mountains.
Denmark should be fine and dry with more sunshine. Staying fair for the Baltic States. Showers in Finland, some heavy. Broken cloud and sunny spells in Sweden. Staying fine across Norway with further rain and showers although fair in the north.