Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 11th May 2024
Duty forecaster: Simon Keeling

Rain and showers in central areas, fair and warm to the north and south

Saturday
Afternoon showers and then increasingly cloudy for Portugal. North Spain will see plenty of afternoon showers, drier brighter in south. A mostly dry and bright day for France. Afternoon showers for north England and southern Scotland, otherwise a dry bright day for the British Isles. A dry day with sunny spells for the Low Countries. Bright over Germany and Poland with a scattered afternoon showers. Some rain for north Norway, otherwise mostly dry for rest of Norway, Denmark and Sweden. A dry day with sunny spells for Finland, the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. Switzerland and Austria will see a dry day with sunny spells. Afternoon showers for Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. Mostly dry start for Romania and the Balkans but showers will develop in the afternoon.
A sunny day for the Balearics, Sardinia and Corsica. A few afternoon showers for Italy, mostly in south. Another rather cloudy day for Greece with some showers, some of them heavy and thundery. Rather cloudy and showery for Turkey. Scattered showers for Cyprus mostly in the morning, and these possibly thundery.

Sunday
Scattered showers for eastern parts of Spain but fine elsewhere with lots of sunshine. Staying fair too in Portugal with more sunshine here. Corsica and Sardinia will be dry with sunny spells. Scattered showers for Italy but mostly dry and fine. Heavy, thundery showers in southern Turkey, dry to the north.
Some thunderstorms in France, torrential for central and northern areas. The Low Countries and Germany should be fair with sunny spells. More sunshine and dry weather in Poland. Hungary will be dry and bright, with showers through Austria and Switzerland.
Breezy and warm as well as fair in Denmark. Staying dry and sunny across the Low Countries and Finland, although some showers in the east. Sweden should be mostly dry and bright with sunshine. Breezy and fair over much of Norway, some rain in the north.