Weatherday: Hostage crisis ends

Cloudy and wet, with some quite heavy rain coming through the morning and afternoon. The 4deg highest temperature will drop down rapidly from lunchtime and some of that rain could become sleet or snow.

Weather clearing by teatime. Light northerly winds shifting west this evening.

On this day in 1981, Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini released 52 Americans who had been held hostage for 15 months.

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