Weatherday: The Heretic

Wet and windy, rain persisting through morning. A cloudy afternoon with strong winds continuing from the southeast.

Highest local temperature of 4deg will be early evening.

On this day in 1633, Italian astronomer Gallileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial for publicly saying the earth revolved around the sun. He was found guilty of heresy.

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