Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
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Lewis Fry Richardson's Weather Forecasting Factory
Lewis Fry Richardson worked at the Matt office in about 1913, just before the war broke out. He was a Quaker and didn't want to be involved in the fighting. While he was on the trenches, he wanted to put in practice his ideas for making one of these numerical weather forecasts. The first big test came at the end of the Second World War when the Allies were planning to land on the beaches of Normandy in France. Peter Gibbs: What role did the weather forecasts play in this important military operation?
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