Issued: 0530hrs Friday 8th July 2022
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine and warm in most of western Europe but some heavy showers in the east

Friday
Fine and warm across Spain and Portugal with plenty of sunshine. Further sunshine and dry weather in the Balearics, Corsica and Sardinia. Heavy thunderstorms in eastern and southern Italy, but fair in the north. Greece will be mostly dry and sunny, some thundery showers in northern Greece. Fine with lots of hot sunshine in Turkey.
France should be dry with good spells of sunshine. The Low Countries wil be dry too and it remains sunny here. More sunshine to come in Germany. Some showery rain in central and eastern Germany, fair in the west. Hungary and Austria may have a few showers, but Switzerland should be dry with sunny spells.
Isolated showers in Denmark with sunny spells as well. Cloud and rain across the Baltic States. Showers for Finland and fair for Sweden. Sowers or rain in western and northern parts of Norway.

Saturday
Sunny and dry in Spain and Portugal and hot conditions. The Balearics will be dry with sunshine. Corsica and Sardinia will be dry, sunny and warm. Remaining fine in Italy with more sunshine. Greece will be dry and sunny. Some heavy showers and a risk of thunderstorms over Turkey.
Fine and warm in France with the best sunshine in the west. Fair for the Low Countries. A few showers in northern Germany and for the north of Poland too. Fair for Hungary with some showers in Austria. Further showers affecting Switzerland.
Windy for Denmark with sunny spells and a few showers. Further showers for the Baltic States as well as Finland. More persistent rain in northern Sweden but mainly dry to the south. Showers over northern and western coasts of Norway, fair to the south ion sunshine.