The Real Drama of the Weather Forecast Behind the New Movie Pressure (opens in new tab)

A movie about weather forecasting doesn't sound all that exciting, until you realize that one forecast was the difference between life and death for an invading force, and even the course of the entire war. That's the premise of the movie Pressure that opened this weekend- the weather forecast for the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. Brendan Frasier plays General Dwight Eisenhower and Andrew Scott plays James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorologist of the Allied forces in Europe. The tension is betw...