Weatherday: Staying in tune for centuries

Going to be a long wet day, mostly. Some showers heavy, and later this evening some very severe rain for a time. Blustery fresh southerly winds will continue.

Highest temperature 12deg during the morning, getting cool this evening.

On this day in 1737, Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari died. Some 244 of his creations still survive, regarded as some of the finest bowed instruments ever created. One in an Oxford museum is valued at around €160m.

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