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JammedStab 4th Nov 2017 03:43

Were there any public weather forecasts during WWII
 
Or was it all a secret.

Heathrow Harry 4th Nov 2017 08:51

I think they were stopped until late 1944.................

Fareastdriver 4th Nov 2017 08:56

They may well have said that it was (not) a good clothes drying day. I remember this being mentioned after the war.

Pontius Navigator 5th Nov 2017 15:44

Indeed during the GW 1 campaign our S Met O used to publish weather reports until someone whispered in his shell like.

WHBM 5th Nov 2017 16:34

No, public weather reports were banned. Given that most weather systems are westerly, they would give aid to those east of there in knowing what was coming, or what was being experienced in the UK.

However they were not banned in the Irish Republic, further west than the UK, and the German embassy in Dublin received the daily forecasts and actuals there, and had a radio to Berlin ...

Heathrow Harry 6th Nov 2017 08:53

rain, rain, rain, rain................

PDR1 6th Nov 2017 12:36

Not all the forecasts were accurate, of course:
"Look, it's springtime
Winter for Poland and France
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!"


PDR


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