Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Staying unsettled across Greece and Turkey with showers

Wednesday
More hot sunshine for Spain. Cloud thickens for Portugal and some rain pushes into northwestern Spain. Fine for the Balearics. Showers form over Corsica and Sardinia. Staying unsettled for southern Italy and Sicily with thundery showers forming. Drier and brighter for northern Italy and the Alps. Heavy rain for the Balkan states and Greece. Some showers reach western Turkey. Fine for Cyprus.
Dry but breezy for France and Switzerland. A little patchy rain for Austria and Hungary, heavier rain for a time in Slovakia. Dry across northern-central Europe with sunshine and broken cloud for the Netherlands and Germany. Dry too for Poland.
Staying cool for Scandinavia with scattered showers across the north. Also showery for Finland, but plenty of dry weather for southern Norway, much of Sweden and Denmark.

Thursday
Some patchy rain across the far north of Spain though mostly staying dry here as well as across Portugal. Light winds today. Dry and fine across the Balearics with showers easing back across southern Italy. Unsettled throughout Greece into Turkey with showers and or longer spells of rain.
Outbreaks of rain pushing across west France into Belgium while eastern areas of France stay mostly dry. The Netherlands also should remain dry with some rain moving through later in the evening. Dry and fine throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Other than northeastern areas Poland should be dry with sunny spells.
Dry and fine across Denmark though a south-easterly breeze will pick up here. With high pressure over Norway expect a dry day as well as across much of Sweden though variable cloud. Improving through Finland with patchy rain clearing and sunny spells developing.