{"id":263042,"date":"2023-06-20T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263042"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:07:22","slug":"the-great-storm-that-could-have-sunk-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263042","title":{"rendered":"The Great Storm That Could Have Sunk\u00a0D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storm on “Gooseberry” : Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Dwight C. Shepler; 1944;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There, with decks awash in the roaring sea, the sunken block ships of the great harbour of “Mulberry” successfully rode out the storm. The part of the breakwater formed by the line of sunken ships was called “Gooseberry.” Though they worked about on the bottom, the ships held their place throughout the unseasonal blow of June 19-22, 1944. At the height of the gale\u2019s fury, gunners stationed on a sunken merchantman sought safety on the fo\u2019c\u2019sle of the H.M.S. Centurion, an old British battlewagon which was the western bastion of Gooseberry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/our-collections\/art\/exhibits\/conflicts-and-operations\/wwii\/the-invasion-of-normandy\/the-storm-of-19-20-june-1944\/storm-on-gooseberry.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us will be familiar with the role that weather played in D-Day, and how the invasion was postponed for a day because of a big storm on June 4th and 5th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less well known maybe is a second, much stronger storm which hit Normandy a couple of weeks later from the 19th to 22nd. The storm was so bad that it totally destroyed the Mulberry harbour next to Omaha Beach, though fortunately the second one on Gold Beach survived and was in use till the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ECMWF, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, carried out a reanalysis a few years ago of the weather during\u00a0 that storm, which you can read\u00a0here<\/a>. It includes this table of wind measurements right on the Gold Beach:<\/p>\n\n\n

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This certainly would not be an unusually strong storm in autumn or winter, but would be unusual in summer on the Normandy coast. It badly affected the build up of Allied forces for several days, delaying Operation Epsom, the attempt to outflank Caen, thus allowing time for the German defences to be reinforced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically the weather across\u00a0 Britain was settled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk\/IO_ec70db69-8f3f-492e-b862-88e48bf76a8a\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is doubly ironic that if D-Day had not gone ahead on the 6th June, the next \u201cwindow\u201d would have been the 18th to 20th June. Just think of the calamity that could have turned into!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTW \u2013 Dwight Shepler, who painted the picture, was a US Navy Officer, and he took part in the invasion as an official artist. Although the painting took place back home in Massachussetts, it was based on drawings and film footage made on location at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Less well known maybe is a second, much stronger storm which hit Normandy a couple of weeks later from the 19th to 22nd. The storm was so bad that it totally destroyed the Mulberry harbour next to Omaha Beach, though fortunately the second one on Gold Beach survived and was in use till the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":263044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/01482335153926.jpg?fit=1016%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16qC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":294203,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=294203","url_meta":{"origin":263042,"position":0},"title":"No, KQED, California\u2019s Storm Surf Not Caused by Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/01\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"NPR is one of the nation\u2019s most prominent Climate Crisis propaganda sources.\u00a0 Almost nothing they print or broadcast that touches on or includes any reference to weather, storms, temperatures, rainfall, droughts, etc.\u00a0 is real journalism.","rel":"","context":"In \"California\"","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=california"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1200%2C723&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1200%2C723&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1200%2C723&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1200%2C723&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-Surf%C2%B4s-up.jpeg?fit=1200%2C723&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":276899,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276899","url_meta":{"origin":263042,"position":1},"title":"Did Idalia Really Have 125 MPH\u00a0Winds?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This together with the central pressure data tells us that it is absurd to claim that Idalia was as strong.","rel":"","context":"In \"Hurricane Idalia\"","block_context":{"text":"Hurricane Idalia","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=hurricane-idalia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0Joe-Biden-Announces-Visit-to-Florida-After-Hurricane-Idalia.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0Joe-Biden-Announces-Visit-to-Florida-After-Hurricane-Idalia.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0Joe-Biden-Announces-Visit-to-Florida-After-Hurricane-Idalia.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0Joe-Biden-Announces-Visit-to-Florida-After-Hurricane-Idalia.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0Joe-Biden-Announces-Visit-to-Florida-After-Hurricane-Idalia.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":228470,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228470","url_meta":{"origin":263042,"position":2},"title":"Hurricane Nicole","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"No doubt, some climate activist will be wheeled out to claim that hurricanes this late in the year are rare, but as Fox point out, there have been other November hurricanes in Florida, in 1935 and 1985. 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