Weatherday: The Great Plague

It will remain cloudy through the morning and afternoon, with some bright spells appearing around teatime.

Light to gentle north-westerly winds, a highest temperature of around 16deg. There's no rain forecast.

On this day in 1665, English diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about the Great Plague of London and the 'death carts' going street to street calling 'Bring out your dead'.

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