Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 28th August 2019
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Thundery showers central Mediterranean, fair to the west and east


Wednesday
Scattered showers on northern Spain on Wednesday. Fine for other parts of Spain and Portugal with plenty of sunshine and hot temperatures. Scattered showers for Menorca with the risk of thunderstorms in Corsica and Sardinia. Italy should be mostly fair wit sunshine although some showers affect the north. Greece and Turkey will be dry with good periods of sunshine here.
Mostly fair in France although some afternoon showers could be triggered in the south. Fair for the Low Countries and staying fine and very warm in Germany. Poland will heva god spells of sunshine and will be warm, with Hungary also being dry and fair. Showers affecting Austria and Switzerland.
Sunny spells in Denmark. A risk of some thunderstorms in Sweden. Breezy with sunshine across the Baltic States and Finland. Norway will be wet in the southwest, otherwise it should be fair with sunny spells.

Thursday
Scattered showers affecting both northern and southern Spain on Thursday. Plenty of sunny spells and dry weather elsewhere. Showers for Corsica and Sardinia as well as central and northern Italy. Fair to the south. Greece and Turkey will be dry with lots of sunshine.
Dry with sunny spells for much of France but some thundery showers in the east. The Low Countries will have sunny spells and scattered showers too. The risk of some rain in central Germany but fine in Poland. Hungary will be dry with more sunshine, but Austria and Switzerland will have heavy thunderstorms.
Showery rain in Denmark. Sunny spells in the Baltic States with mostly dry weather and sunshine in Finland. Showers across Sweden, some of them heavy. Rain, heavy at times in western and southern Norway, fair in the north.