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Description
Mr. Aitken describes the different variables and information sources necessary to compile a weather report
Transcription
Any special operation like the use of smoke, got a lot of attention and we would be very particular about the winds and the local topography. We also used to forecast the height of waves in water, if we were close to the sea. We would give them that information. The forecasts were quite, followed a particular pattern. We were getting hourly observations from all over the British Isles. We got once or twice daily information from specially equipped aircraft that flew out from the British Isles and back again and they reported the weather all the way. We, thanks to Enigma, the code, German code had been broken and we got all the European weather observations.