Join the Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory, the Clements Library, and featured speaker Paul Gross on May 8 at 7PM to view Forecast: Overlord, a documentary about how weather affected the Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day.

After the viewing, we will host a discussion with leading local weather expert, Paul Gross, who researched, wrote, and produced the documentary.

Local 4 Meteorologist Emeritus Paul Gross worked for forty years at the hometown station he grew up wanting to be a “weatherman” at as a child. Paul spent three-and-a-half years researching the weather behind the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. The documentary he wrote and produced was deemed so historically significant that it was added to the D-Day archives at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, the British Meteorological Archives, and the Museums of Television and Radio History in New York and Chicago.

The Clements Library‘s mission is to collect, preserve, share, and promote the study and discussion of primary sources related to all aspects of the history and culture of North America and the Caribbean to 1900.

Documentary viewing starts at 7PM and is about 23 minutes long.