Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 30th September 2023
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine for much of central and southern Europe, rain and windy in Scandinavia

Saturday
High pressure continues to reside over western Europe bringing lots of warm sunshine to Spain, Portugal and France. Very warm, topping 30C in places, locally into the mid-30s in southwestern Iberia. Lots of sunshine through the western Mediterranean and Italy too. Risk of showers toward the far south of Italy. Thundery downpours for southern Greece and much of Turkey.
A cold front passes eastwards across central-eastern Europe. Rain clearing from Germany to leave sunny spells. A few showers for Czechia and Austria. A spell of rain for Poland and Slovakia. Mostly dry for the Balkan states and toward the Black Sea.
Low pressure over Scandinavia brings cool and windy conditions. Rain then showers for the Baltic states and Finland. Frequent showery rain for Norway, but drier and brighter for Sweden and Denmark, just passing showers.

Sunday
Fair for Spain and Portugal with plenty of sunshine and dry weather. Lots of sunshine too in the central Mediterranean, extending through Italy. Greece will have showers and some of these heavy and thundery in central and eastern Greece.
France is going to be staying dry and sunny although some morning mist and fog patches clearing. The Low Countries and much of Germany will be dry and fair, although some cloud and spots of rain in the far north. Poland will be bright and dry with plenty of sunshine. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be dry and fair with more sunshine.
Cloudy and damp in Denmark with periods of rain. Fair and breezy in the Baltic States but some broken cloud and sunny spells in Finland too. Sweden will be dry and bright with plenty of sunshine. Cloud and some rain in southwest Norway, showers in northern Norway.