Weatherday: Death of the 'Boss'

Overnight hard frost will be slow to clear. Icy patches will remain in shaded areas, so be careful underfoot and on the roads.

Occasional sunny spells but remaining very cold in moderate northerly breeze. Highest local temperature 3deg. Freezing again tonight with possibility of some wintry showers.

On this day in 1922, Kildare-born Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died on South Georgia Island.

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