The weather forecast was key. With a full moon and favourable tides in early June, D-Day - the launch of boats in an amphibious attack on the beaches of France, known as Operation Overlord ...

A major turning point in World War II hinged on the weather observations of a 21-year-old woman. Maureen Flavin Sweeney wouldn't know the role her reports played in D-Day until a decade later.

Weather forecast crucial to the success of D-Day Forecasting ability much more limited in 1944 Course of the war changed thanks to the expectation of a brief improvement in weather conditions ...

WASHINGTON (7News/AP) — Likely one of the most important forecasts in history was the D-Day weather forecast. The biggest-ever air and seaborne invasion took place on D-Day on France's Normandy ...

Weather D-Day: The weather forecast that changed the world Meteorologist Chris Ramirez talks about how the weather played a role in the Allied Forces victory.

On this 75th anniversary of D-Day, one less known aspect of that day was the importance of the weather. 22News Storm Team Meteorologist Nick Bannin explains why the weather and the forecast was so … ...

An abandoned boat sits in the remains of a dried out pond in Dawson, Ala., on Oct. 26. The Southeast is enduring a damaging drought. (Brynn Anderson/AP) Drought is currently plaguing the Southeast ...

The Forecast for D-day: And the Weatherman behind Ike's Greatest Gamble, by John Ross, is published by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, and is available from Amazon.

Likely one of the most important forecasts in history was the D-Day weather forecast. The biggest-ever air and seaborne invasion took place on D-Day on France's Normandy coastline on June 6, 1944 ...