Weatherday: The Lost Colony

The Library at Russborough House.

Another mostly cloudy day with occasional showers or drizzle. A chance of some sunny spells later in the afternoon.

A temperature high of 18deg in light to moderate breezes from the west.

On this day in 1587 Virginia Dare was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, on Roanoke Island in today's North Carolina. Her parents were part of a group of 120 settlers, which mysteriously disappeared three years later.

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