Weather: It sounds like this

Pretty well all-day rain, in showers and squally heavy bursts. The only respite will be around tea-time, and then it starts up again.

But the temperatures will rise from the still chilly morning to about 9/10 degrees, so it won't feel as raw as it has been. Winds moderate to fresh, blustery.

Thomas Edison patented the phonograph on this day in 1878, recording sound as indentations on a tinfoil cylinder. It would be ten years more before the concept of doing it on a flat rotating disc was invented by Emil Berliner, thus unleashing mass market music on the world.

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