Weatherday: Sorry about that, Gal

A mild, humid, and mostly cloudy day. Some rain in early morning will clear. Perhaps the odd shower around lunchtime.

Highest temperature locally expected as 15deg. Southerly winds fresh to strong.

On this day in 1633 the astronomer and scientist Galileo was forced by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church, under threat of torture, to recant his belief in the Copernican theory that the Earth orbits the Sun. In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared that Galileo was right.

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