Weatherday: The Martians are destroying us!

A dank start out there should dry up to a morning with the odd peek of the sun. A clearance from late afternoon will brighten things before dark.

Light westerly breezes will shift to brisker south-easterly, bringing some rain the the late evening. Highest temperature10deg.

On this day in 1938, a radio dramatisation by Orson Welles of HG Wells's War of the Worlds caused alarm in the US, as some listeners believed it was reporting a genuine invasion from Mars. 

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