Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 23rd June 2021
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Thundery rain in southern France, Switzerland and Austria, fair north and and south

Wednesday
Thunderstorms in northern and eastern parts of Spain. Fair for Portugal and southern Spain with plenty of sunshine. Scattered showers for the Balearics. Fine for Corsica and Sardinia with good spells of sunshine in Italy. Greece and Turkey will be dry and bright with lots of sunshine.
Rain and heavy showers in eastern and southern France. Western and northern France will be bright and dry with sunny spells. Bright in the Low Countries and dry here with sunny spells. Germany will be bright and dry with sunshine but some showers in the west. Further showers in the west and south of Poland. Hungary and Poland will be dry with sunshine. Switzerland will have heavy and thundery rain.
Denmark will be dry with sunny spells. Some thunderstorms developing in the Baltic States. Finland will be dry and bright with lots of sunshine. Sweden will be dry with lots of sunshine. Staying fine in Norway, although some rain in the far north.

Thursday
Fair through Spain and Portugal on Thursday, plenty of sunshine here and warm too. More fair westher in the Balearics and through Corsica and Sardinia. Italy should be mostly dry with more sunshine. Greece and Turkey will be dry with further periods of sunshine here.
Rain and thunderstorms in eastern parts of France. Western France will be brighter and dry too. Sunny spells for the Low Countries and for northern parts of Germany. Western and southern Germany will have a risk of some heavy thunderstorms. These thunderstorms affect Poland but will be more scattered. Hungary will have some bright spells, but heavy and frequent thundery showers affecting Austria and Switzerland.
Sunny spells in Denmark and dry here too. Bright periods for the Baltic States and Finland, scattered showers here. A few showers in southern Sweden tod, but the north should be fair. Norway will be fine with more sunshine to come here.