Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 8th June 2024
Duty forecaster: Dominik Majer

Heavy rain in Scandinavia, showers in Alps and Iberia

Saturday
Rainy and thundery on the Iberian Peninsula, except southern regions. Sunny in majority of Italy, except the Alps where thunderstorms are possible. Hot everywhere to the south of Rome. Sunny and hot also through Greece and the Turkish coast, but showers developing in the inland areas of Turkey. Fair weather and very warm in the Balkans. Dry, but partly cloudy through lowland areas of France, Belgium and Germany, just some rain on the German coast. Rainy and thundery in the alpine parts of France and Germany, thunderstorms also in Massif Central and in the Pyrenees.
Dry and often sunny in Poland and Slovakia, some more clouds over Hungary. Mostly overcast and a lot of rain accompanied by thunder in Austria and Switzerland.
With deep low pressure in Scandinavia there will be heavy rain and very windy conditions in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, cold for the season here. Rain and clouds moving away from the Baltic countries, a fine afternoon there perhaps apart from Estonia. A mix of sunshine, clouds and brief showers in Finland.

Sunday
Clouds and showers in Portugal and northern Spain, sunny in Andalusia. Dry and sunny in the western Mediterranean islands and in southern Italy. Cloudy with showers and thunderstorms in the northern part of Italy. Superb holiday weather in Greece, Turkey and most Balkan countries.
Wet and murky in Carpathians and in the Alps. Low pressure, thunderstorms and heavy precipitation in southern France, fair weather in the north, in Benelux, and in the northern half of Germany. Cloudy, but apart from the mountains dry in southern Germany, Czechia and southern Poland. Mostly sunny in northern Poland, after a rainy morning in the Baltic countries also increasingly sunny.
Still windy and heavy rain in southern Norway and the south of Sweden with gales. Windy too in Denmark with heavy showers. Feeling cold across Scandinavia, especially in Norway.