Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 24th September 2026
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

High pressure over the central and west continent brings very warm and sunny conditions, while low pressure to the northeast brings showers, rain, and fresher air.

Thursday
Extensive sun and warm temperatures remain widespread over Spain, Portugal, and the Balearics. Showers for Sardinia; Corsica and Sicily are likely dry and sunny. Mainland Italy is dry with a mix of cloud and sun, possibly a little rain in the far northeast. The Balkan States are dry, cloud building from the north with mild temperatures, rain into Slovenia and Croatia later, pushing south into night. Fine for Greece and Türkiye, through a broad area of rain in central Türkiye.
South and west France remain hot and sunny. Cloudier to the northeast, as well as in the Low Countries, Germany, and Switzerland, but dry with sunny spells too. Early rain in east Germany and Poland will slip into Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary, blustery with this rain. This rain later reaches Romania and west Ukraine, but well broken. Bulgaria stays dry with sun spells.
Early patchy rain in Norway and west Sweden gradually breaks up for increasingly sunny conditions. A windy, wet start in Denmark and south Sweden, easing for lighter wind, dry conditions and sunny spells. Low pressure brings wind and patchy rain into the Balkan States, some broader areas of rain into south and east Finland as well as Estonia.

Friday
More hot sunshine for Iberia and the Balearics. Scattered showers for Sardinia and Corsica. Scattered showers in central and south Italy, some thundery downpours in the far south. Feeling cooler in the Balkan States, with heavy rain slipping southward, soon dry in the north. A fine start in Greece, but this rain reaches north and west areas afternoon. The Aegean islands and Türkiye are fine and mostly sunny.
Sunny in France, very warm in the west. High pressure over the continent brings a broad area of sun through the Low Countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A few scattered showers may break out over the high Alps. Often showers in Poland with heavy bursts, showers passing into Slovakia and Hungary, as well as west Romania and Ukraine. West Bulgaria becomes wet later. Feeling fresher in east Europe.
Staying windy with frequent showery rain in the Baltic States. A few showers here and there in Finland, most stay dry with a few sun spells. Denmark and Sweden are dry with sunny spells. Norway starts dry with sunny glimpses, then a band of rain approaches from the west, spreading more widely into north areas and spreading into north Sweden later in the day.