{"id":3361,"date":"2015-06-06T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2015-06-06T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:50:28","slug":"the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The weather forecast that saved D-Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since today is D-Day, you may be interested in the importance of weather forecasting to the success of the mission.\u00a0 The <em>History Channel<\/em> has an excellent write-up of why the forecasters were so crucial to picking the best date for the massive invasion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day?cmpid=Social_FBPAGE_HISTORY_20150607_189479683&amp;linkId=14759484\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Another short article on the forecasts is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=61139\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=61139<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I camped on the cliffs overlooking the beaches in France in 1980, one of the coldest summers in Europe on record.\u00a0 A moving visit and one that I recommend to anyone interested in learning more about our history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3362\" style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/Omaha_Beach_Normandy_France_14867438661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3362\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/Omaha_Beach_Normandy_France_14867438661-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Rennett Stowe\/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"403\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/Omaha_Beach_Normandy_France_14867438661-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/Omaha_Beach_Normandy_France_14867438661-284x138.jpg 284w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/Omaha_Beach_Normandy_France_14867438661.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Rennett Stowe\/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since today is D-Day, you may be interested in the importance of weather forecasting to the success of the mission.\u00a0 The History Channel has an excellent write-up of why the forecasters were so crucial to picking the best date for the massive invasion here.\u00a0 Another short article on the forecasts is at https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=61139. I camped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}