Weatherday: Eruption!

Any early mist will clear to sunny spells through the morning. More cloud in the afternoon, but should remain dry.

 Light breezes from the south, but there's a yellow weather warning from later this evening for high winds, and there may be some intense rain episodes. Highest temperature 16deg.

On this day in 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted burying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing 15,000.

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