Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 18th July 2020
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Warm around the Baltic

Saturday
Fair for Spain and Portugal with plenty of sunshine, very hot again in the southwest, into the upper 30s or up to 40C in places. Staying fine in the Balearics as well as through Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will have a scattering of showers, but good spells of sunshine. Greece and Turkey will be dry with plenty of sunshine here.
Fair in France with lots of sunshine. Isolated showers in the Low Countries and western Germany, Showers affecting eastern Germany with an area of rain in much of central and northern Poland. Showers in Hungary and Austria, although dry for Switzerland.
Fair with plenty of sunshine across Denmark. The Baltic States will be dry with sunshine here. Fine for Sweden, again with some sunshine. Showers or longer spells of rain affecting Norway.

Sunday
Staying dry and sunny for Spain, Portugal and much of France, highest temperatures again across the southwest of Iberia. Much of the Mediterranean will be dry, with just isolated showers over the islands, mainly Sicily. Largely dry with scattered afternoon showers for Italy and Greece.
Central and eastern Europe will be unsettled and thundery with areas of rain breaking out widely for the Czech Republic, Hungary, southern Poland, Romania and the Balkan states. Scattered showery bursts for Germany and the Alps, and a few showers for the Netherlands and Denmark.
Areas of rain affect Norway and Sweden as low pressure drifts in from the west and fronts pass eastwards, some heavy bursts for a time. Largely dry and warm for Finland and the Baltic states with scattered showers.