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.

Norman

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Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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"Norman" wrote in
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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.

Just downloaded the Jan-Mar 1963 data. For people who want to sift through
and dissect some historical events (esp. for Germany) - there's probably a
health of information, albeit a bit grainy !

Richard

"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.

Philip

In article ,
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
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

In article ,
Norman writes:
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.

One has to congratulate NOAA for doing this. To acquire so much data and
put it into machine-readable form must have taken an enormous amount of
effort, and thus have cost a considerable amount of money. And they have
made the data freely available to anyone who wants it, with no charge.
Sadly, one can't imagine our own Met Office doing anything like this. I
suspect that the NOAA archive doesn't include any UK data because the
Met Office wouldn't make it freely available.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

"John Hall" wrote :
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?
--
You're right John. But it will have to take its place at the end
of the queue, I'm afraid.

Philip