Issued: 0530hrs Monday 14th September 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

Wind and rain sweeps into Scandinavia and the north Continent on Tuesday.

Monday
More sun over Iberia, quite hot in Portugal and south Spain. Sunny over the western Mediterranean islands. A few afternoon showers in the far north and south of Italy, most areas dry with sunshine. A few scattered showers in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a few into northern Serbia. Dry with a mix of cloud and sun for the rest of the Balkan States. A few showers along the north Türkiye coast, but elsewhere dry and sunny, fine in Greece.
Cloud and an odd spot of rain in north France, dry and sunny elsewhere: very warm, hot in the south. Quite warm in the Low Countries too with patchy rain, this rain extending across central and south Germany; north Germany is dry with sun spells. Fine with a few showers in eastern Switzerland. Showery rain across much of Poland, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. These showers will fade and cloud will break late in the day for a bright sunset. A few showers in eastern Romania and Bulgaria, dry to the west with a mix of cloud and sun.
Generally dry but cloudy in Denmark. Scattered showers in central and south Sweden, fairly cloudy here too. Showers in the Baltic States will gradually fade for bright spells later, a few showers lingering in east Lithuania and Latvia. Finland is fine and mostly sunny. Norway is more often cloudy, but generally dry with some bright spells too.

Tuesday
More hot sun in Iberia, rain into northwest Spain later in the day. The Balearics and Corsica are fine, as is Sardinia though an odd afternoon showers possible here. Thundery showers in southern Italy, fine to the north. Scattered showers in the central Balkan States, as well as west Greece, which may be frequent and heavy in the far south. Sunny spells between the showers. A few showers near Turkish coasts but most areas stay fine.
Another very warm day in France, particularly southwest. Warm too in the Low Countries and Germany, and through afternoon, a band of rain sweeps into northern France through the Low Countries into west Germany. Sun will be fairly extensive across south Germany, the Alpine countries, and into Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary. A few showers to start in east Poland, these fading too for a fine afternoon. Showers from Belarus south through Ukraine into Romania, these also fading through afternoon for a bright evening. Bulgaria is dry with sunny spells.
A mild southerly breeze picks up across Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Heavy rain in southern Norway will spread into Denmark and Sweden, some thundery bursts in southern areas with patchy rain moving further north. A few showers in Lithuania and Latvia, while Estonia is dry and bright. Finland is similarly dry and bright.