D-Day: the landings in Normandy
6 June 1944 · 06:30 · Colleville-sur-Mer, France
At 6:30 am the first Allied troops reached Omaha Beach, below Colleville-sur-Mer. The real weather of that day on the Normandy coast, which nearly delayed the landings.
The weather that day
- 11.6 to 14.8 °C, rain, 0.6 mm of rain.
- A west wind, 20 km/h on average, and pressure from 1015 to 1012 hPa.
The sky
- Sunrise at 05:59, sunset at 22:05.
- The moon: full moon, 99% lit.
Its name
Anemara: Wind from the west, a thin rain, beneath a moon 99% lit.
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Weather: ERA5 reanalysis, Copernicus Climate Change Service. Not made by AI.