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Forecasting D-Day

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The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not too much cloud for the airmen, to be followed by three more quiet days'. But who would make the forecast? The Meteorological Office? The US Air Force? The Royal Navy? In the event, it was all three. In this diary piece published in 1994, Lawrence Hogben, a New Zealand-born meteorologist and Royal Navy officer, describes the way this forecasting by committee worked, and why they very almost chose the wrong day.


Read by Stephen Dillane


Find the article and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/ddaypod

Watch the short film based on this piece: https://lrb.me/ddayyt


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Forecasting D-Day

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The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not too much cloud for the airmen, to be followed by three more quiet days'. But who would make the forecast? The Meteorological Office? The US Air Force? The Royal Navy? In the event, it was all three. In this diary piece published in 1994, Lawrence Hogben, a New Zealand-born meteorologist and Royal Navy officer, describes the way this forecasting by committee worked, and why they very almost chose the wrong day.


Read by Stephen Dillane


Find the article and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/ddaypod

Watch the short film based on this piece: https://lrb.me/ddayyt


Sponsored links:

Learn more about Serious Readers: www.seriousreaders.com/lrb


Sign up to the LRB's Close Readings subscription:

In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq

In other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings



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