Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 24th September 2016
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fair in much of central and eastern Europe, turning more unsettled in west


Saturday
A few showers in eastern Spain. Most of the rest of Spain and Portugal will be fair with good spells of sunshine. Staying fair acros Corsica and Sardinia as well as Italy. Plenty of sunshine to come in Greece and Turkey and feeling warm here as well.
Staying warm and dry across France with lots of sunshine. Warm too in the Low Countries and staying fine and dry for Germany too. Poland is far in the west but some showers in the east. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland should be dry with good spells of sunshine.
Dry with plenty of sunshine for Denmark and for the Baltic States too. Sweden will have a fair and warm day with sunny spells with similar weather in Finland. Most of Norway stays dry and sunny, although cloud and some showers affect the far west.

Sunday
Plenty of sunshine for Spain and Portugal, although some heavy thundery showers and rain in northeast Spain. Fair for the Balearics and Italy with good spells of sunshine here. Greece and Turkey will be dry and fair with good spells of sunshine and warm weather here.
A band of showery rain passing east through France on Sunday. Brighter weather then follows from the west. Cloud and some rain in the Low Countries, this reaching western Germany later. Eastern parts of Germany should be dry with sunny spells. Poland is going to be bright and dry with good spells of sunshine. Austria and Hungary are dry and sunny too, although showers in Switzerland.
High pressure brings the last of summer to Denmark and much of Norway with lots of sunshine and dry weather. Staying dry in Sweden and the Baltic States as well as Finland with more sunshine here.