{"id":7307,"date":"2016-06-06T22:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2016-06-06T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:25:30","slug":"the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The weather forecast that saved D-Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>History Channel<\/em> has an excellent retrospective on the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, which occurred on June 6, 1944. \u00a0The weather forecast for that event was crucial in making it a success. \u00a0You might enjoy reading about it and watching some video at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day\">https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day<\/a>. \u00a0USA Today also had a feature about this in 2014 which included the weather maps for that date at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/06\/03\/d-day-weather-forecast\/9914207\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/06\/03\/d-day-weather-forecast\/9914207\/<\/a>. \u00a0Mashable.com also has a different version of the map, which they called &#8220;the most important weather map in history,&#8221; at\u00a0https:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/06\/06\/most-important-weather-map-in-history\/#RhWlY6sW3SqF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7308\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-300x242.png\" alt=\"mashable d-day weather map\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-171x138.png 171w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History Channel has an excellent retrospective on the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, which occurred on June 6, 1944. \u00a0The weather forecast for that event was crucial in making it a success. \u00a0You might enjoy reading about it and watching some video at\u00a0https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day. \u00a0USA Today also had a feature about this in 2014 which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","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=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}