Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 24th April 2018
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Broken cloud central Europe, fine and warm Mediterranean


Tuesday
Thunderstorms will break out for southern Spain and Portugal, and locally over northern mountains too. However, much of central and eastern Spain will be dry and warm. Plenty of sunshine across the Mediterranean. Local thundery showers by afternoon along the spine of Italy and into the Balkan mountains. Rain advances east to affect Romania and Ukraine. Meanwhile Greece should stay dry and sunny. Largely dry and pleasantly warm across central Europe, temperatures widely 20 to 25C, and up to 28C in south-west France. A fresh westerly breeze affects northern Europe, bringing outbreaks of rain to northern Germany, Denmark and perhaps the Low Countries where it will be generally cloudy. Breezy for Scandinavia, with frequent showery rain in western Norway. A little rain for Sweden and Finland, mixed with brighter spells.

Wednesday
A fine day for much of Spain and Portugal. Thundery showers affecting eastern areas and the Balearics. Corsica and Sardinia should be dry with lots of sunshine. It will be staying warm and sunny across Greece and Turkey.
Cloud and some patchy rain in northern France but the risk of thundery showers in central areas. Southern France should be dry with sunny spells. More cloud and some rain in the Low Countries, clearing to showers. Cloud and some rain in northern Germany. Southern germany should be fair and there will be broken cloud in Poland. Switzerland, Hungary and Austria should be dry.
Denmark will have some morning rain, then should become dry. Cloud and showers in the Baltic States with cloud and rain in Finland. Showers for Sweden but some sunny spells here. Sunny spells too in Norway as well as a few showers.