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Philip Eden writes:
"Norman" wrote :

Anyone who has a few months of spare time available might get a bit of
enjoyment browsing through the following site:

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/data_rescue_home.html

There's all sorts of fascintaing stuff there. In particular, the link
to German data contains scanned Daily Weather Reports from 1896 to
1975. The maps in them extend to the British Isles.

Beware, though, the files are VERY large. Because of this, use of the
site is practical only with a fast broadband connection.

You're right, Norman. They are big. I'm at the end of a long wire
so my broadband is not very quick and it took an hour to download
three months' worth. But I did it for a purpose, and chose Mar-Jun
1944. The Reichswetterdienst seemed to have, even then, good
observational coverage over most of Europe, and, more to the point,
extremely serviceable surface and upper-air analyses over the
Atlantic. It makes one wonder whether they were somehow getting
hold of Allied analyses. Their D-Day charts looked, if anything,
rather more benign than our own did.

That sounds like it could make a fascinating article for "Weather". Any
chance of tempting you to write it?
--
John Hall
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