troops relied on it and it could determine the outcome of the war. months and years of waiting were over. in 1944, three forecast units two british and one american fed information back to southwick house, near portsmouth. and it was this man, group captainjames stagg, responsible for advising the military. it was really difficult to go into that room and see poor general eisenhower with his head on one side and he s just staring, waiting to hear what the forecast would be. because, normally, we had got accustomed to him being such a bright and a spritely man, going about with a broad grin as if he were almost a gymnastic instructor. 80 years ago, unlike today, there was very little technology available to help. our supercomputer today does 14,000 trillion calculations every second, and we feed millions upon millions of bits of data
into that supercomputer every day, as well. back in stagg s day, a handful of observations across the atlantic. the pressure of forecasting even one day ahead, whereas now, these current circumstances, with the advances of technology, we can forecast several days ahead. so, catherine, what are these? so these are the original weather maps from the d day period. and these take us through the 4th ofjune, where they were making the decision on whether they could invade on the 5th, and then the 5th ofjune, when they were finding the weather window to invade on the 6th. now we know the american forecasters and eisenhower wanted to go in the 5th. this is from the british met office, isn t it? yes. what did they spot that made them decide that, no, we shouldn t go on the 5th? so if we have a look at the chart for the 5th, you ll see they got the forecast absolutely right because there s a weather front sitting smack in the english channel there, which brought all of those conditions that they
staring, waiting to to hear what the forecast would be. staring, waiting to hear what the forecast would be. because, normally, we had got accustomed to him being such a bright and a spritely man, going about with a broad grin as if he were almost a gymnastic instructor. 80 years ago, unlike today, there was very little technology available to help. our supercomputer today does 14,000 trillion calculations every second, and we feed millions upon millions of bits of data into that supercomputer every day, as well. back in stagg s day, a handful of observations across the atlantic. the pressure of forecasting even one day ahead, whereas now, these current circumstances, with the advances of technology, we can forecast several days ahead. so, catherine, what are these? so these are the original weather maps from the d day period. and these take us through the 4th ofjune, where they were making the decision on whether they could
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