Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 9th August 2022
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Widespread thundery showers across north and central Spain and Portugal by midweek

Tuesday
Hot and sunny for Portugal and southern Spain. Localised showers forming over central and northern Spain, thundery in places later. Also a few thunderstorms forming over southern Italy and the central Balkans, also northern Romania. Plenty of hot sunshine across the Mediterranean.
High pressure extends over northern-central Europe, bringing lots of dry and sunny weather to France, Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. Temperatures widely into the 30s for France, above 35C in the southwest. Into the upper 20s for Germany, locally over 30C in the southwest.
Much of Scandinavia will be dry, sunny and fairly warm, 25C in eastern Sweden. Risk of a shower inland for the Balkan states, but mostly dry. Fronts over the Atlantic are likely move into west and northern Norway where wet and windy conditions are expected.

Wednesday
Widespread thundery, heavy showers develop across northern Spain and Portugal, southern areas staying mainly dry. One or two showers could affect the Balearics though mostly dry and fine here. Thunderstorms breaking out across central and southern Italy as well as across Sicily. Largely dry through Greece and Turkey though the odd local shower cannot be completely ruled out.
High pressure extends over northern-central Europe, bringing lots of dry and sunny weather here again today. Temperatures reaching into the mid to upper 30s across southern and western France into the Low Countries and parts of Germany. Cooler across eastern Spain and Poland.
Windy and wet with heavy rain across northern Norway into northwest Sweden. Elsewhere across Norway and Sweden will be dry with sunny spells and feeling warm across southern areas. Windy though mainly dry for Finland. Dry, fine and warm across the Baltics and Denmark with temperatures into the mid 20s here.