Issued: 0530hrs Monday 8th August 2022
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Thunderstorms focused on southern Italy, Balkans and Romania

Monday
Low cloud affecting the Portugese coasts for a time. Chance of a shower for northern Spain and the Pyrenees. Otherwise dry and fine with sunshine across Iberia. Italy will see some thundery, heavy showers later across inland areas, coastal regions largely dry. Some developing thunderstorms across Turkey too. Greece will be dry, hot and sunny.
Breezy though dry and fine across France with dry and sunny weather also for the Low Countries and Germany. A few scattered showers across the Alpine region but these should ease later, otherwise Austria and Switzerland will be fine. Poland and Czechia will also see a fair day. Risk of a thunderstorm for eastern Hungary and into Romania.
Largely dry and fine across Scandinavia, though cloud will build through western Norway, but many places will be dry with sunshine. A few isolated showers developing across southern Sweden, Finland and into the Baltic States. Denmark dry, fine and feeling warm in the sun.

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.