Anniversary of the D-Day Landings - 4th June 1944
3,420 views · Published 4 June 2014 · 1:47 · Indexed 4 November 2026
Channel: Met Office - UK Weather · 2014 · Science & Technology
The Met Office played a crucial role in the timing of Operation Neptune, which saw troops and equipment cross the English Channel for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings in Normandy. The first of three videos presented by Deputy Chief Meteorologist Chris Tubbs interprets the original, hand-drawn charts that the Met Office compiled every four hours for the military high command. He shows how they gathered their data, some of it from German meteorologists after we broke the Enigma code. Information was also relayed from ships in the Atlantic via pigeons. The decision was not to dispatch invasion troops on the 5th due to unfavourable weather conditions. The video also explains the close relationship the Met Office had with the military commanders.
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