Wartime Weather

[brumbear]

Hello,

I hope that some of your memebers might be able to help. I am currently researching various aspects of world war 2 in Britain. Aside from some very sketchy information about the winter of 1939-1940, being a bad one, I can find little else. Do any of you know where I may go, to find out the details of wartime weater records?

Thanks

John

[Weather-history]

John

Try Trevor Harley's site.

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley...ars_1940-49.htm

[MP-R]

You can have a look at these links for the weather since 1914:

For the England and Wales Mean Temperature

http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/series...tics/ewtemp.txt

For the England and Wales Rainfall

www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/seriesstatistics/ewrain.txt

For the England and Wales Sunshine

www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/seriesstatistics/ewsun.txt

[johnholmes]

hi

These sites may give some info on the weather in the war.

Perhaps the most important forecast ever done here

http://www2.met-office.gov.uk/corporate/an...ting/index.html

this one is fascinating

http://www.ecmwf.int/products/d/inspect/ca...earch/era/dday/

try this

http://www.paperlessarchives.com/d-day_documents.html

this site is by an ex senior weather forecaster in the Met office

http://www.franksingleton.clara.net/whither_the_weather.html

and this from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/hist...ture/dday.shtml

enough to keep you going about D-Day and the weather anyway.

John

[brumbear]

Thankyou all very much for your help. I am currently writing a mini television history on Birmingham at war This is one of the great untold stories. Weather detail in my research however, has been very patchy and when I write and obviously when we eventually shoot, I have to get it spot on.

Please look at my site, the blog and the links

many thanks

John

www.carvery.zoomshare.com