Maureen Sweeney’s weather data from western Ireland offered the first clues of a major storm, leading to a one-day delay in the D-Day invasion in 1944.
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On June 3, 1944, Maureen Flavin changed the course of history with the meteorological information she recorded while working as a post office assistant.
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