Maureen, on the 3rd of June 1944, picked up the falling pressure which meant that a storm was on the way. Asked to double check, she did and on the basis of her weather readings the allied invasion was postponed until the 6th of June when the storm had passed through the English Channel.
Here is an image of the fine lighthouse, it probably didn't look like this on the 3rd of June 1944 but on a bright day it's an impressively scenic place, somewhere appropriate to contemplate how much the weather could influence the outcome of a war that was happening 500 miles away.
