Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall...
...most serious German failure, though, was in military intelligence. Apparently because of the bad weather, neither naval patrols nor reconnaissance planes maintained surveillance of the invasion preparations on the crucial last day before the landing. German meteorologists assured their commanders that the storm would prevent any Allied attack, and that prediction prompted Rommel to take a quick trip home. His wife's birthday happened to fall on June 6. When Rommel heard the news from Normandy at his home near Ulm, he could
...grandmother from 1903 to 1907), was a reporter for 4½ years at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and while at TIME held down second base for the magazine's Softball team. In Los Angeles, she finds "the ease and proximity of doing sports remarkable. Facilities are so close and the weather almost always so cooperative that the intention can be turned into action in seconds...
...application, moreover, could range from improving weather forecasting to facilitating electronics warfare...
With a heavy turnover in House staff and the selection of a new master apparently stalled, Cabot House residents are unsure how they will weather the transition period...