The Irish Postmistress Who Saved D-Day

Haven't heard this one before.
"On June 3, 1944, 21-year-old Maureen Sweeney held the fate of the free world in her hands as she took readings from the Blacksod weather station in Co Mayo.
Taking weather readings was part of her role as assistant post mistress. She was unaware of a secret deal between the Irish Free State government and British authorities about the supply of information.
In Blacksod Bay on June 3, Ms Sweeney noticed the air pressure in the barometer had plummeted from her earlier readings. That indicated a major storm was due. She passed on the information to Ballina, who sent the readings to Dublin, before the information was secretly transmitted to the British.
Within hours, her readings, which identified a growing storm in the Atlantic, were in General Dwight D Eisenhower's hands. He had hours to make a decision on whether to launch the invasion of Europe on June 5.
If her information was correct, Ms Sweeney's forecast warned the invasion fleet would be battered by storm force winds, jeopardising Operation Overlord.
Eisenhower was receiving conflicting information and was fearful news of the imminent invasion would leak to the Germans. Secrecy and the element of surprise was vital to the success of the invasion.
The moon and tide conditions for the invasion coincided between June 5 and 7. Failure to launch by June 7 would require a fortnight delay. "
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7093675/The-Irish-postmistress-saved-D-Day.html

 

That seems naive.
Convoys, ships, planes regularly reported conditions as they crossed the Atlantic.
And numerous weather ships and air meteorological patrols.

 

It's not, and has been fairly well documented in books over the years. Most recently in 2014, with "The Forecast for D-Day and the Weathermen Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble." by John Ross.
In Pursuit of the Forecast - D-Day Forecast

 

What you mean by "it's not", at least eight weather ships were on patrol and they transmitted their findings every three hours, a least three weather air patrols were flown every day.
Even in Ireland, eight weather stations reported weather and their reports were correlated, so it wasn't like a postmistress saved D-Day.

 

It doesn't make as good a story as saying some random individual "saved" everything. I've been waiting for a spate of gee-whiz stories again and here they come. https://www.washingtonpost.com/hist...wpisrc=al_trending_now__alert-national&wpmk=1

Gary Sterne's tendentious tale of the "Maisy Battery" lives on and now has grown to be a "complex that covers 144 acres". He's also turned his eagle eye onto the assault of Pointe du Hoc as well. Now Rudder is the villain for attacking Pointe du Hoc instead of Maisy and for failing to move on to attack Maisy after capturing Pointe du Hoc.

 

Oh and even better, Sterne now blames Rudder's dereliction of duty for losing 77 Rangers killed, 152 wounded, and 38 missing in action at Pointe du Hoc. Do you notice a problem with that figure? Rudder's assault force consisted of roughly 225 Rangers. Sterne is counting the casualties of the entire Provisional Ranger Group, including those of A, B, and C Company, 2d Rangers and the 5th Rangers on OMAHA. Christ wept.