Pictures of Peace on VE Day

Peaceful and beautiful images from Bushy Park, Teddington at 6am today as temperatures are expected to soar to 24 and 25 degrees over the Bank Holiday. Photographer Sue Lindenberg took the uplifting images during her early morning 'patrol' of the park.

Seventy five years ago today on May 8th, 1945, the Daily Mirror in England published a weather forecast calling for rain and pointing out the "sudden warm snap of yesterday will not continue."

The Mirror said:"Never has a country celebrated so wildly the inaccuracy of a weather forecast.

"Of course, on that May 8th, England also was rejoicing on V-E Day, Victory in Europe, signalling the end of World War II there.

"So people may have been celebrating that triumph instead of the flawed forecast, but nonetheless there was sun, temperatures in the mid-70s and the end of the nightmare of war.

"May 8th, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, the unconditional surrender of Germany after six years of war and the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians worldwide.

"Weather forecasts played a part in that victory. That forecast on May 8th, 1945, was the first in six years as England tried to restrict any information that would help the Germans.

"For nearly six years the British people had been denied the traditional daily weather forecast in an attempt to prevent the Germans from gaining any useful information with regard to their own bombing and naval plans," according to the book 'The Day the War Ended' by Martin Gilbert.