This is the best explanation! Actually if the editor posted this article on her phone, it might even be auto-correct? What would that say about how often such an editor posts clickbait, that she uses the word "fate" more than the word "date"?

That was the RAF meteorologist, James Stagg, who persuaded Monty and Eisenhower to move the date from the 5th to the 6th. :)

Famously if they had not gone on the 6th the next tide window would have seen the worst storms in years.

The Met Office's page: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/in-depth/d-day-70th-annive...

And the forecast was verified with a last-minute weather report from the lighthouse at Blacksod, Ireland, thanks to a 1921 agreement:

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/how-blacksod-lighthouse-...

"An hour later, the same caller, 'a lady with an English accent', asked for the latest weather observations."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/openplaques/13198792295/

There is an excellent write-up of this at https://medium.com/@garius/the-weatherman-the-man-who-decide...

Thank you for linking that. I'd not known that Krick was quite so alternative in his beliefs!

Planting dates in the Normandy, at this rate of climate change, will be a matter of at least... decades.

Actually, effects of climate change are not that bad even when looked st the extreme 100yr scale.