Weatherday: One for the Blue Bird

Sunny spells and scattered showers, some of them heavy. Temperatures tops at 7 degrees and feeling colder in the continuing gusty westerly winds, which will be fresh becoming moderate.

Some heavy rain later tonight.

On this day in 1933, Malcolm Campbell set a world land speed record of 272.46mph in his Blue Bird car, at Daytona Beach in Florida.

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