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The North Atlantic weather war occurred during World War II. The Allies (Britain in particular) and Germany tried to gain a monopoly on weather data in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Meteorological intelligence was important as it affected military planning and the routing of ships and convoys.
Stagg and the teams based the forecast weather improvements for June 6 on reports from a single weather ship 600 miles (1100 km) west of Ireland reporting a rising barometer, and a lighthouse keeper on the Blacksod Lighthouse in County Mayo in neutral northwest Ireland. Under a secret 1939 deal between Dublin and the Met Office in Dunstable ...
World War II brought great advances in meteorology as large-scale military land, sea, and air campaigns were highly dependent on weather, particularly forecasts provided by the Royal Navy, Met Office and USAAF for the Normandy landing and strategic bombing.
One of the most important weather forecasts in world history would occur in early June 1944, as Allied meteorologists prepared to deliver the final word for the long-awaited D-Day invasion of ...
Group Captain James Martin Stagg, CB, OBE, FRSE (30 June 1900 – 23 June 1975) was a British Met Office meteorologist attached to the Royal Air Force during the Second World War who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe from 5 to 6 June 1944.
Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew of the Kriegsmarine in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland, in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America (outside of Greenland) during ...
After the outbreak of the Second World War, the station, important as one of the first to warn of approaching westerly weather systems, was asked to make hourly weather reports. [7] [4] The Allied forces planned Operation Overlord, an invasion of German-occupied France, for June 1944. In the approach to this the Blacksod weather station was ...
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