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War drama Pressure depicts D‑day’s weather forecast – what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems theconversation.com/war-drama-pr...

theconversation.comWar drama Pressure depicts D-day’s weather forecast – what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systemsEven with today’s forecasting technology, D-Day would not have been an easy call as portrayed in the new movie, Pressure.

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Ed Hawkins

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4 Sept

How does an AI-based weather forecast system cope with the most important weather forecast in history? Paper: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPressure: reimagining the D‐Day forecast through machine learningWe reproduce the D-Day forecasts, one of the most iconic and famous forecasts ever made and the subject of the new film ‘Pressure’ using a machine-learning model, AIFS-ENS. While James Stagg and the ....

Geoff Smith

@drgeoffsmith.bsky.social

4 Sept

A great article. I saw a preview of the film on Wednesday and was very impressed. I also drew out the analogy to empirical modelling and AI approaches. I particularly enjoyed the sequence where Stagg challenges the room that they are biased by wanting Krick's forecast to be true.