{"id":30066,"date":"2026-05-31T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=30066"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:21:04","slug":"the-thrilling-true-story-behind-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/the-thrilling-true-story-behind-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thrilling True Story Behind\u00a0&#8220;Pressure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are interested in historical thrillers, you can&#8217;t do much better than learning about the weather forecasts behind the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. A new movie out in theaters now,&#8221;Pressure,&#8221; describes how the forecast was made and used to authorize the invasion of the beaches in Normandy, France, during World War II. I have not seen it yet but plan to see it this week. Friends and reviewers online have said it is a great story so you might also enjoy it. Here is a <em>Time<\/em> review that discusses the movie: <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/05\/29\/the-true-story-behind-pressure\/\">https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/05\/29\/the-true-story-behind-pressure\/<\/a>. See it soon because it is not expected to be around for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png\" alt=\"d-day-weather-map\" class=\"wp-image-7308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map.png 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/mashable-d-day-weather-map-171x138.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are interested in historical thrillers, you can&#8217;t do much better than learning about the weather forecasts behind the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. A new movie out in theaters now,&#8221;Pressure,&#8221; describes how the forecast was made and used to authorize the invasion of the beaches in Normandy, France, during World War II. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30067,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066\/revisions\/30067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}