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US Honors 98-Year-Old Irish Woman Whose Weather Forecast Delayed D-Day Landings in 1944, Changing Course of WWII

[ad_1] Twitter/@RTE It was June 3, 1944. In County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, an operator at a remote North Atlantic weather station noticed his barometer dropping rapidly, indicating that a storm would pass over the Channel. Stain in no time. Her name was Maureen Flavin Sweeney, and her weather report, which postponed…