What Weathermen Don't Know

December, 1998

Think predicting the weather isn't important? At least one forecast changed the course of World War II. In the weeks before D day, Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower dragooned every meteorologist in Britain and ordered them to do two-day and three-day forecasts using the Allies' one great advantage---the network of weather stations in the Atlantic. The Nazis had already abandoned their Greenland weather station, their last observation post west of Europe. When a blustery, rain-heavy storm arrive...

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