Weatherday: The Longest Day

CPC TY students in 'The Boyfriend' (2008).

Cloudy with occasional brighter spells. It should stay mainly dry, with the small possibility of scattered showers during the afternoon.

Temperature at around 14deg high in light breezes from the east.

On this day in 1944, Allied forces began the D-Day landing operation in Normandy with a force of 156,000 troops following air and naval bombardments of German positions.

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