Issued: 0530hrs Sunday 3rd September 2023
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Heavy thundery rain in Spain and Portugal, fair Italy and France

Sunday
Staying unsettled with heavy showers as well as longer spells of rain across Spain and more so Portugal today. Weather improves across the Balearics though it is likely to be windy and gusty here. Dry and fine conditions expected across Italy and the surrounding islands. Dry weather also continuing across Greece into Turkey.
A dry and mostly fine yet breezy day across France. Dry with lasting sunshine through the Low Countries and Germany. Switzerland also staying dry, yet the risk of a shower or two over Austria. Eastern Europe seeing showery rain push southeastwards, though Poland is expected to be dry and fine with sunny spells.
Cloudy with the risk of some rain in the north of Denmark, while dry and fine further south. Any initial showers across the Baltics clearing. Largely dry through Finland and Sweden though some scattered showers about. Showery rain and strengthened winds pushing on to north and west Norway.

Monday
Thundery rain in eastern and northern Spain and most of Portugal. Fair for the Balearics with sunny spells. A fair day too in Corsica and Sardinia. Greece will be wet with thundery rain, some of it heavy. Further thundery rain in the west of Turkey but fair in the east.
Breezy and bright for France, sunny spells and feeling very warm. The Low Countries and Germany will be dry and fair with sunshine. Poland stays dry and sunny. Hungary and Austria as well as Switzerland will be remaining dry with more sunshine.
Denmark stays dry and sunny. Sunshine for the Baltic States as well as Finland. Further breezy weather for Sweden. Wet in most of Norway, windy too with the heaviest rainin the north.