Weatherday: The heart of the matter

A dry morning with good sunny spells. Rain moving in from the west later tonight.

Highest temperatures of 6deg, but it will feel colder in moderate westerly breezes.

On this day in 1982, the first artificial heart was implanted into a dental surgeon from Seattle, Barney Clark, by University of Utah cardiologist William DeVries.

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