Issued: 0530hrs Friday 6th August 2021
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Heavy downpours move in across Switzerland into south Germany

Friday
Hot and dry again across Spain and Portugal. Dry weather extends across much of France, plus Italy, Greece and across the Mediterranean with extensive sunshine. Staying hot in southeast Europe, although temperatures easing off compared to recent days.
Southwesterly winds bring showers or longer spells of rain to northern France, the Low Countries and western Germany. A few showers for the Alps. Remnants of thunderstorms continue to rumble across eastern Europe, focused on Ukraine and Belarus, also eastern Poland in the morning. Quite warm for eastern Germany and western Poland where the day will be mainly dry.
High pressure over northern Russia and Finland brings mainly fair weather to Baltic regions, although storms may affect southern Baltic states inland. Brisk winds and patchy rain for southern Norway. Rain is likely to set in for Denmark.

Saturday
Mostly dry and hot across the Iberian continent, however, far northern regions of Spain will see some patchy rain throughout the day. Mainly dry and fine across the Balearic Islands, Italy and Greece. Some scattered thundery showers for Turkey.
It starts off reasonably quiet across much of north and northwest Europe but outbreaks of heavy and thundery rain push from west to east across France into the Low Countries and western parts of Germany through Saturday. Rain and showers could be considerably heavy across the Alpine Countries. Eastern Germany staying mostly dry, although southern areas seeing thundery showers. Poland and the Balkan States staying dry, fine and warm.
A band of heavy rain will push northwards across southern Norway, Sweden and Finland. Further north it will be largely dry and fine with good spells of sunshine. Wet initially across the Baltic states but it is an improving day. Outbreaks of rain pushes across Denmark.