The Kriegsmarine has been tasked with gathering meteorological data to aid the German war effort since the start of World War II, which, at first, was primarily carried out by weather observation vessels. Due to the frequent loss of these boats, it was decided to construct meteorological stations on land. The first such station around the Arctic Ocean was established in October 1941. Throughout the war, there were 16 teams of weather specialists set up to transmit their findings to Berlin so that the German high command could plan its operations against the Russians, the British Arctic convoys, and land operations in western Europe. The cat-and-mouse game played by a small group of tough and highly skilled men on both sides, hunting each other through the snow and ice over thousands of miles above the Arctic Circle, became known as the North Atlantic Weather War.
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