Issued: 0530hrs Monday 26th July 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Unsettled for northern Europe. A hot and dry Mediterranean.

Monday
A few thunderstorms developing across northeast and east Spain. These could affect Ibiza later on. Largely dry elsewhere across Iberia. Possible scattered showers across Menorca and Majorca as well as Corsica and Sardinia but mostly dry here. Dry and fine for Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Showery rain across northern and central parts of France with thunderstorms and heavy rain in the southeast. A few thunderstorms for Belgium but mostly dry across the Netherlands. Rather cloudy with showery rain, some heavy for Germany. Thunderstorms across the Alpine countries into the Czech Republic and Poland.
Thundery rain moving north across Denmark into southern parts of Norway and Sweden. Largely dry elsewhere here. Mostly dry and fair for Finland. Thunderstorms across southern Baltic States but largely dry further north.

Tuesday
Some cloud and patchy rain could affect far northern regions of Spain and Portugal, otherwise the rest of Iberia will be dry and fine and feeling hot. Dry across the Balearic Islands as well as the rest of the Mediterranean.
Spells of rain will push from west to east across France, heavy in places. Cloudy and wet for the Low Countries. Showers, some heavy, across Germany with thundery showers affecting the Alpine Countries too. Largely dry for the Balkan States and Czech Republic. Some showers across Poland.
Unsettled with thundery rain across southern Norway and Sweden. Drier further north. Largely dry across Finland. A few showers affecting the Baltic States. Mostly dry for Denmark, although a few showers could push in on some southern areas later.