Issued: 0530hrs Tuesday 17th April 2018
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Fine and warm in much of central and western Europe, some showers in the Mediterranean


Tuesday
High pressure extends from Iberia to southern Scandinavia, bringing plenty of fair weather. Sunny and warm for Spain and Portugal, highs 22 to 25C, warmest in the south. Also climbing to 24C in south-western France, nearer 20C in the north of France, Germany and across the Low Countries, cooler near North Sea coasts. 
Thunderstorms will break out again for central and southern Italy, and extensive across the Balkan countries. Thundery bursts too for Hungary and into western Romania and Bulgaria. Dry and sunny toward Black Sea coasts and across Greece. Rain affects Belarus and south-east Poland. Fair weather around the Baltic. 17C in southern Sweden. Rain spreads into Norway from the south-west and becomes persistent later.

Wednesday
A fair day for Portugal and Spain with plenty of sunshine and feeling very warm too. Staying sunny over the Balearics and it should be fine for Corsica and Sardinia too. Showers affecting Italy, some of them heavy. These heavy showers also troubling Greece where some could be thundery. Turkey is likely to be fine with some good spells of sunshine.
Fair weather across France and the Low Countries with some warm temperatures. Fine spring-time conditions affecting Germany and Poland. Austria and Hungary as well as Switzerland will be dry with more sunshine to come here.
The far weather affects Denmark too on Wednesday. The baltic States and Finland will be dry with good spells of sunshine. Some cloud in central and northern Sweden whilst broken cloud affects Norway.