Weather reports from the (remote) past

[aerdna]

Hi everyone,

Not sure this is the right place to post this but any help is appreciated.
A friend of mine is writing a book on WW2. For the purpose of an episode he is reporting, he would need to know what was the weather like in Berlin on the evening/night on April 25, 1945. Is there a database i can look into which contains such information?

Thank you in advance for your advice!
Regards
Aerdna

[20milesout]

Surface pressure April 25. and 26. 1945:

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5205/25press.th.gif (http://img846.imageshack.us/i/25press.gif/)

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7894/26press.th.gif (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/26press.gif/)

(source: Wetter : Wetterzentrale : Top Karten : Archiv Wetterbeobachtungen Deutscher Wetterdienst (http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fskldwd.html)), site is down sometimes

Temperature Berlin (max./mean/min) Celsius:

25.: (14.7/9.4/0.7)
26.: (17.2/10.8/2.6)

no precipitation.

Looks like calm or light southernly winds. Couldn´t find info about cloud density in Berlin. But this very night the skies were clear in northern Germany, same in Bavaria. Might have been the same in B.

Another hint: On April 25th Russian and US troops met in Torgau, some 60nm south of Berlin, there´s plenty of video footage out there on youtube. Given, these documents are not staged, the weather looks nice.

Deutscher Wetterdienst (German meteorological service) might have detailed information, dwd.de (site is partially available in English).

Good look!

[aerdna]

Hey 20milesout

i've read your message just now
thank you very much, i'll have a look

take care
aerdna