Interesting perspective on the critical role of weather and D-Day.

Stagg gets all the credit but it was really the Irish who saved D-Day. A weather station at Blacksod on the west coast of Ireland saw all this coming and alerted the British who then ran with it:

How Maureen Sweeney’s Weather Report Saved D-Day

‘Pressure’ trailer has Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower, and focuses a lot on D-Day’s weather

The new film turns weather forecast into a suspense drama with the fate of World War II in the balance.

by Nicholas Slayton
Published Feb 21, 2026 2:51 PM EST

What do you do before ordering hundreds of thousands of men into an invasion of Europe? What kind of pressure does that put on a leader? That’s the big question behind “Pressure,” a new film charting Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s stressful hours leading up to the launch of D-Day. It’s also about the weather...

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