A spell of unusually warm weather having little or no rain will take placeacross the heart of northwestern Europe through at least the end of this week.Daily temperatures will soar 15, 20 and locally even 25 degrees F above normalacross UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and northern France. Switzerland andScandinavia will also warm substantially above normal.
Dominating Europe's weather through the week will be high pressure ridgedsouthward from Scandinavia to the central Mediterranean Sea. This high,together with a stubborn storm near the Iberian Peninsula, will draw warm airnorthwestward and into the aforesaid areas.
What is more, the high will tend to suppress rainfall over northwestern Europewhile it shunts rainy Atlantic weather far to the north.
London, for instance, will warm above 70 degrees daily through at least Sunday.
A few days will reach the middle to upper 70s. At the same time, there will belittle or no rain.
Warm spots in England could tickle the 80-degree mark.
With few exceptions, the weather will be much the same through the week incities from Paris and Amsterdam to Frankfurt and Berlin, with widespread dailyreadings in the 70s.
The dryness is nothing new, at least for UK. The UK Met Office have said thatMarch 2011 was the driest month of March since 1997. But one part of England,Cambridgeshire, had its driest March since 1929.
