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Just now, dryslot said:

Extrapolating is never a good idea but that H5 look would not be any good if that's what JC was looking at.

Maybe he was talking about Friday? Significant west shift, though it's pretty late in the game for enough future shifts to make it an event 

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So for all the ICON dispersions:

I'm watching a WWII documentary on D-Day.  Not surprisingly, Rommel was going to be commanding the bulk of the Panzer divisions.  Here's where it gets funny.  Quoting the documentary here:

"Rommel considered the first 24-48 hours would be crucial for this battle.  And where was he?  He was in Germany celebrating his wife's birthday.  He had believed too much in the German weather forecasts which had said on the 6th of June it would be poor weather--but then the weather shifts...."

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14 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Car said -9F pulling in at home at 6:20pm.  Yikes.

It was +9F In Williston leaving Best Buy.  18F difference between Champlain Valley and Stowe.

-7.7° here.  I installed my Ambient just over a year ago and my lowest temp has been -11.1°  I'd like to beat that.

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28 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

So for all the ICON dispersions:

I'm watching a WWII documentary on D-Day.  Not surprisingly, Rommel was going to be commanding the bulk of the Panzer divisions.  Here's where it gets funny.  Quoting the documentary here:

"Rommel considered the first 24-48 hours would be crucial for this battle.  And where was he?  He was in Germany celebrating his wife's birthday.  He had believed too much in the German weather forecasts which had said on the 6th of June it would be poor weather--but then the weather shifts...."

The weather wasn't great on the 6th, though, according to reports:

On June 6th, the weather was more tolerable, but certainly not ideal.  A gusty wind blowing from the west at 15 to 20 knots produced a moderately choppy sea with waves of from 5 to 6 feet in height.  This was a heavy sea for the small craft, which had some difficulty in making way.  Even the assault area was rough for the shallow-draft vessels, although there the wind did not exceed 15 knots, and the waves averaged 3 feet.  Visibility was 8 miles with a cloud ceiling at 10,000 to 12,000 feet.  Scattered clouds from 3000 to 7000 feet covered almost half the sky over the channel, becoming denser farther inland.  Maritime polar air had moved over the channel behind the cold front as the low of 4 June that was west of England moved eastward; the deep low that was off Labrador on 4 June moved north-northeast to just off the southeast coast of Greenland .  This was the key to the clearing weather: if the Labrador low had tracked eastward, foul weather would have prevailed.

The midlevel overcast was most serious for air operations.  Heavy bombers assigned to hit the coastal fortifications at Omaha Beach had to bomb by instruments through the overcast.  With concurrence of General Eisenhower, the Eighth Air Force ordered a delay of several seconds in its release of bombs, in order to insure that they were not dropped among the assault craft. The result was that the 13,000 bombs dropped by 329 B-24 bombers did not hit the enemy beach and coast defenses at all, but were scattered as far as 3 miles inland.  The weather also contributed to navigational difficulties. Mist mixed with the smoke and dust raised by the naval bombardment obscured landmarks on the coast.

Look at the low overcast in this picture.  As an aside, the logistics of amassing thousands of ships and landing craft whatever the weather was quite a feat.  Not that this would ever happen again, but you wonder if our military elites could handle this type of operation today?

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8 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said:

The weather wasn't great on the 6th, though, according to reports:

On June 6th, the weather was more tolerable, but certainly not ideal.  A gusty wind blowing from the west at 15 to 20 knots produced a moderately choppy sea with waves of from 5 to 6 feet in height.  This was a heavy sea for the small craft, which had some difficulty in making way.  Even the assault area was rough for the shallow-draft vessels, although there the wind did not exceed 15 knots, and the waves averaged 3 feet.  Visibility was 8 miles with a cloud ceiling at 10,000 to 12,000 feet.  Scattered clouds from 3000 to 7000 feet covered almost half the sky over the channel, becoming denser farther inland.  Maritime polar air had moved over the channel behind the cold front as the low of 4 June that was west of England moved eastward; the deep low that was off Labrador on 4 June moved north-northeast to just off the southeast coast of Greenland .  This was the key to the clearing weather: if the Labrador low had tracked eastward, foul weather would have prevailed.

The midlevel overcast was most serious for air operations.  Heavy bombers assigned to hit the coastal fortifications at Omaha Beach had to bomb by instruments through the overcast.  With concurrence of General Eisenhower, the Eighth Air Force ordered a delay of several seconds in its release of bombs, in order to insure that they were not dropped among the assault craft. The result was that the 13,000 bombs dropped by 329 B-24 bombers did not hit the enemy beach and coast defenses at all, but were scattered as far as 3 miles inland.  The weather also contributed to navigational difficulties. Mist mixed with the smoke and dust raised by the naval bombardment obscured landmarks on the coast.

Look at the low overcast in this picture.  As an aside, the logistics of amassing thousands of ships and landing craft whatever the weather was quite a feat.  Not that this would ever happen again, but you wonder if our military elites could handle this type of operation today?

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Yeah--they referenced it as lifting a few hours before go-time.  Or something like that.

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