Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 1st May 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

More rain in Portugal, heavy showers for Turkey

Thursday
Cloud and some showery rain in central and eastern Spain. A scattering of showers in Portugal. Fair for the central Mediterranean area with plenty of sunshine and dry weather. Greece should be dry and sunny. Heavy showers in Turkey, some thundery.
Cloud and some patchy rain in the far west of France but fair for most areas with sunshine. More sunshine and warm weather in the Low Countries and Germany. Poland will be dry and sunny. Hungary and Austria will also be dry with more sunshine as will be Switzerland.
Lots of sunshine in Denmark and the Baltic States and staying warm here. Cloud and some showers in Finland. Fair for southern Sweden with sunshine, some cloud and a few showers in the north. Wet for Norway with wind and cloud. Some showers in northern Norway.

Friday
Rain across Spain and Portugal through Friday. The rain could be heavy at times. Rain and showers for the Balearics too. Corsica and Sardinia will have fine conditions with sunny spells. The sunshine continues in Italy. Greece will have a few showers whilst some heavier, thundery showers affect Turkey.
Rain and cloud in southwestern France but fair for most of the country with sunshine. Broken cloud in the Low Countries and northern Germany. Fair for most of southern Germany and Poland with long spells of sunshine here. Hungary and Austria will be fine too with more sunshine. Staying fine in Switzerland with sunshine here as well.Breezy and dry for the Baltic States. Windy in Finland with some rain in the west. Staying wet in Sweden with cloud and rain. Further rain affecting Norway, some of it heavy.
Broken cloud and a few spots of rain in Denmark.