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BBC Weather's Tomasz Schafernaker warned thunderstorms will batter western Europe this weekend as the Greece and Turkey will see highs of 30C. But temperatures are beginning to climb

bringing a week of sunny weather for central Europe. France will start to see the change in weather with highs of 26C on Sunday. Mr Schafernaker said: "The weather pattern across the

continent is fairly typical for July. "More or less lots of sunshine around and some thunderstorms breaking out too during the weekend particularly around the Alpine region and central

parts of Europe. "Later in the weekend it looks as though we'll see thunderstorms breaking out across the Balkans. "But the temperature contrasts are pretty substantial across

the continent. READ MORE: UK WEATHER FORECAST: 26C HEATWAVE TO HIT THE UK THIS WEEKEND "Turkey, Greece and the Balkans will see 30C on Saturday but north of the cold front the pressure

is much lower. "It will be around 20C in Scandinavia and also further west into Europe. "That weather front shifts more into the eastern part of Europe on Sunday and you'll

see showers breaking out. "It will be warning up in western Europe as Paris will be up to 26C and sunny weather on Sunday." A month of intense fires in the Arctic Circle have also

been recorded by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, surpassing the record levels of fires seen in the region in June 2019. Globally last month was on a par with 2019 for the

hottest June on record, with temperatures 0.53C above the 1981 to 2010 average, and Europe saw its joint second warmest June on record. Temperatures in Arctic Siberia were exceptionally

warm, C3S experts said. Average temperatures were as high as 10C above normal for the month in some places, while across all land in the region, temperatures averaged more than 5C higher

than usual and more than 1C above 2018 and 2019 - the two previous warmest Junes.