Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
If it weren’t for a weather forecast, D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history—would have taken place on June 5, as originally planned. And if that had happened, the invasion would have ended in disaster. Thousands of men would have been swamped by storm-whipped waves. Instead Allied forces waited a day, and the rest is history.
The story of this pivotal battle in World War II has been recounted in countless books, movies and miniseries. But one crucial ingredient in the invasion’s success—that forecast—is still little known to the broad public.
The story of that history-bending prediction is the subject of Pressure, a new movie that stars Andrew Scott as WWII meteorologist James Stagg. Our senior climate editor Andrea Thompson spoke with the actor about his experience playing this character and learning about the challenges of analog weather forecasting in the 1940s.
#wwii #history #meteorology #weather #andrewscott #pressure
If it weren’t for a weather forecast, D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history—would have taken place on June 5, as originally planned. And if that had happened, the invasion would have ended in disaster. Thousands of men would have been swamped by storm-whipped waves. Instead Allied forces waited a day, and the rest is history.
The story of this pivotal battle in World War II has been recounted in countless books, movies and miniseries. But one crucial ingredient in the invasion’s success—that forecast—is still little known to the broad public.
The story of that history-bending prediction is the subject of Pressure, a new movie that stars Andrew Scott as WWII meteorologist James Stagg. Our senior climate editor Andrea Thompson spoke with the actor about his experience playing this character and learning about the challenges of analog weather forecasting in the 1940s.
#wwii #history #meteorology #weather #andrewscott #pressure
