Issued: 0530hrs Thursday 6th August 2026
Duty forecaster: Alexi Venerus

Scattered thunderstorms northeast Spain and central Europe, fresher, mixed Scandinavia

Thursday
A further risk of thunderstorms in northeastern Spain on Thursday afternoon. Fair for other areas with lots of hot sunshine. Staying hot across the central Mediterranean and apart from a shower in Sicily, Italy will be dry with lots of sunshine. Greece and Turkey remain hot and dry throughout the day.
Sunny and hot for France, staying dry too. Scattered showers in the Low Countries and northern Germany. Thunderstorms in eastern Poland but fair in the west. Thunderstorms affecting southern Germany and these extending through Switzerland and Austria. Hungary should be fair with good spells of sunshine too.
Windy with a mix of sunny spells and showers. Scattered showers for the Baltic States. Windy with heavy showers and longer spells of rain in Finland. Breezy for Sweden but heavy showers and rain in northern and western Sweden. Norway will have further heavy showers, although western and northern coasts are going to be dry and bright.

Friday
Once again northeast Spain at risk of heavy, thundery showers developing. Dry and hot elsewhere here. Dry and fine across the Balearic islands as well as much of Italy, though the north here will see some showers, these heavy and thundery in the far north. The odd shower across Greece otherwise dry and hot. Dry and fine across Turkey.
Dry through France, the Netherlands and Germany. Showers developing across southern Switzerland and west and south Austria. Dry and fine through Poland and Hungary. The Balkans States though will see one or two scattered showers.
A few showers affecting the far west of Denmark, otherwise dry here with sunny spells and broken cloud. Southern regions of Sweden and Norway will be largely dry with sunny spells, though the north will see a higher risk of showers, perhaps longer spells of rain. Mixed across Finland with sunny spells but also at risk of showers and longer spells of rain. Mostly dry across the Baltic States.