Issued: 0530hrs Wednesday 8th July 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Mild temperatures and often wet and windy across northeast continental countries.

Wednesday
Plenty of sunshine for Spain and Portugal although scattered thunderstorms in the east and over the Pyrenees. Sunny and hot for the Balearics, Sardinia, and Corsica. A few thundery showers in southern Italy, but fine and dry with lots of sunshine in the north. Some showers sweep south through the Balkan States, these possibly thundery in Croatia in the afternoon. Greece will have scattered showers, perhaps frequent with local thunder in the afternoon. TΓΌrkiye will be hot and sunny.
France will be fine, sunny, and hot. More hot weather for the Low Countries, chance of an isolated shower in the northern Netherlands. Some cloud and showers across Germany and into Austria. Switzerland will be dry and sunny. Early showers in Czechia, clearing for sun. Poland will the cool with a mix of sunshine and showers, as well as a strong westerly wind. Scattered showers in Slovakia and Hungary, mostly clearing for sun. Showers and heavy rain affect Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria, sunny spells between rain.
Denmark will be sunny and dry, quite breezy too. Heavy rain and windy in the Baltic States. Showers and sunshine in Finland, heavier rain more widespread in the north in the morning. This rain will push into northern Sweden and Norway as well. Scattered showers in central areas of Sweden and Norway, dry with sunshine to the south and east. Mild-to-warm across Scandinavia, locally very warm in southern Norway and Sweden.

Thursday
More hot sunshine across Iberia, afternoon heavy showers in northeast Spain. Extensive hot sunshine across the central Mediterranean islands. Heavy showers form in central and southern Italy, hot sunshine to the north. Well-scattered showers in the Balkan States, otherwise hot and sunny. Showery across Greece, frequent and heavy/thundery in the western mainland afternoon. Some rain sweeps into northwest TΓΌrkiye, coastal southern showers in the afternoon, otherwise dry, hot, and mostly sunny.
More hot sunshine in France, this extending into the Low Countries, England, and south/west Germany. Hot in the Swiss and Austrian lowlands, some showers in Austria. A few showers in northern Germany and Czechia fade for dry sunshine. Scattered showers in Slovakia and Hungary too but more often sunny. Heavy showers in central and east Poland with wind, sunnier west. Outbreaks of rain continue across Belarus and Ukraine. Bulgaria and Romania remain showery too, but mostly trending to eastern areas.
Denmark is dry and sunny, these conditions extending into southern and central parts of Norway and Sweden. Cloudier to the northwest of these countries, some rain affecting northwest Norway. Scattered showers in northern Finland will fade for frequent sunshine, but rain will increasingly affect southern Finland, locally heavy/thundery. Heavy rain continues to be widespread in the Baltic States, though locally easing later for sunny spells.