Issued: 0530hrs Friday 29th July 2022
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Heavy and thundery showers in eastern European countries

Friday
Fair through Spain and Portugal on Friday. A few showers in the east of Spain. The Balearics will be dry with sunny spells. Staying dry across Italy, Greece and Turkey with plenty of sunshine.
More sunshine and dry weather in France. The Netherlands will be fair too and the sunshine should extend into northern parts of Germany and Poland. Some showers across southern Poland with heavy thunderstorms affecting Germany and the Czech and Slovak Republics. Further torrential storms for Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland.
Denmark will be dry with good spells of sunshine. High pressure keeps Finland dry too as will be the Baltic States. Sweden should be dry and mostly sunny. Fair weather across Norway with more sunshine here.

Saturday
Mostly dry across Spain though some local thunderstorms in the south and east may develop later. Portugal remains dry and fine. The Balearics and Italian islands stay dry with plenty of sunshine. Mainland Italy is largely dry though with some developing showers in the east. Dry and fine for Greece and Turkey.
Dry with sunshine across France and the Low Countries though cloud may build here later. Western regions of Germany will also be dry and fine though the east will see showery rain, some locally heavy and thundery. Unsettled with heavy showers and thunderstorms across southern Poland, Czechia and Hungary. Drier across northern Poland. Many showers clearing the Balkan States.
Cloud building across Denmark with the risk of some patchy rain here later. Cloud thickening through southern and western parts of Norway where rain will push in later. Drier elsewhere here as well as across Sweden and the Baltics where the best of the sunshine will be. Some scattered showers across Finland.