Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 27th June 2019
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Hot and sunny for many but some thundery rain in Sweden


Thursday
A few light showers for northwestern parts of Spain but elsewhere across Spain and Portugal it will be dry, hot and sunny. Dry, hot and sunny too for the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy. A few scattered, perhaps thundery, showers for southern Italy and Sicily. A few showers for southwestern Turkey but elsewhere across the country and for Greece it will continue fair and hot.
Continuing hot, sunny and dry across much of central Europe on Thursday including France, Benelux, Germany and the Czech Republic. Thunder showers flaring up through the afternoon for parts of Austria and Hungary.
A wet and windy day for the Baltic States with a few rumbles of thunder possible. Dry and fair for much of Sweden and Denmark with good sunny spells. Rain, some of it heavy, clearing to the southeast of Finland through the day while Norway should be mostly dry and fair away from its west coast.

Friday
Hot and sunny in Spain and Portugal. More sunshine through the central Mediterranean, this extending into Italy. Greece is going to be dry with lots of sunshine and will be very warm. Hot in Turkey too with lots of sunshine.
Fair and sunny in France, very warm too. A fine day to come in the Low Countries and Germany as well as Poland. Further sunshine in Hungary and Austria although some thunderstorms may be triggered by the heat in Switzerland.
Lots of sunshine and fine weather in Denmark. The Baltic States will be breezy and very warm. This fine weather afecting Finland too. Sweden should be dry with lots of sunshine. Norway will be cloudier with some outbreaks of rain in northern and western areas, but some sunshine to the south.