Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 13th May 2023
Duty forecaster: Garry Nicholson

Warm sunshine Turkey and Greece

Saturday
Showers across the far north of Spain as well as a few heavier ones further east which also affect the Balearics. Dry for west and central Spain. Portugal also dry and fine. Unsettled across Italy with heavy showers plus longer spells of rain. Wet too for the Balkans. Settled with plenty of dry and sunny weather across Greece and Turkey.
Rather cloudy across France with showers or longer spells of rain, also including the Low Countries where there will be a bit of a breeze. A belt of rain through central Germany, but drier to the north. Showery for Switzerland and Austria. Drier with well scattered showers for eastern Europe.
Dry with sunny spells across Denmark. A line of scattered showers soon develops through southern Norway into central Sweden, otherwise dry and fine here. The odd scattered shower across Finland though mainly dry through the Baltic region.

Sunday
Staying dry for western Spain and Portugal with warm sunshine, but quite breezy toward the Atlantic coasts. A few showers for eastern Spain. Showers forming for the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia. Generally unsettled across central Europe with areas of rain and increasingly widespread heavy and thundery showers, these affecting central and southern France, the Alps and northern Italy. Heavy downpours likely for the northern Balkans. Dry, sunny and warm for Greece, Turkey and the western Black Sea coasts.
Northwestern France looks mainly dry. After a dry start expect a scattering of showers forming by afternoon for the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark and Poland. High pressure over much of Scandinavia brings a fine day with sunny spells. A little rain grazes northern Norway.