Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 26th July 2020
Duty forecaster: Claire Darbinyan

Hot and dry conditions extend through the Mediterranean


Sunday
It should be a dry, hot and sunny day across Spain and Portugal as well as for the Balearic Islands. Italy too looking mostly dry and sunny though there could be some outbreaks of rain over the Alps. More dry weather for Greece and Turkey too with plenty of sunshine here.
Cloudy with outbreaks of rain for France, the Low Countries and Germany. Rain clears from the east allowing brighter conditions to spread from the west. Rain over the Swiss and Austrian Alps also clears through the day. A band of rain, often heavy, spreads from west to east over Poland with drier, brighter conditions either side of this.
Heavy spells of rain will continue to affect southern parts of Norway and Sweden. Largely dry and fine further north. A day of sunny spells and showers for Finland. Mostly dry and fine for the Baltic States with rain arriving to the south much later.

Monday
Dry, sunny and hot again for Portugal, Spain and the Balearic Islands. Dry and sunny too for Italy with just the slight chance of a shower developing over northern areas later. Sunny and hot too for the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.
Dry and warm for much of France, southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A slight chance of isolated showers developing over the Alps. Cloudier with scattered showers for the Low Countries, the Czech Republic and northern Germany. Some showers may be locally heavy and thundery. Early rain and cloud clears east from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to leave a dry and fine day here.
Rain spreads north from central Norway and Sweden becoming increasingly light and patchy while sunshine and isolated showers follow from the south. A cloudy day with isolated showers for Finland. Cloudy too for Denmark with more frequent showers here. A band of locally heavy and thundery rain spreads from the southwest across the Baltic States.