Weatherday: Nearly MAD

Outbreaks of rain will clear to scattered showers and sunny spells. Some showers will be heavy.

Blustery winds moderate to fresh from the southwest. Highest temperature 11deg.

On this day in 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world closest to WW3 when an American spy plane was shot down over Cuba and warning depth charges were dropped on a Russian submarine off the island. 

(Headline refers to the phrase Mutually Assured Destruction, a term used in the context of a nuclear world war.)

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