Weatherday: Leap of faith

Ship off Hook Head (2011).

A good deal of cloud today with a few sunny spells. Possibility of scattered showers.

Temperature up to 12deg in moderate breezes from the west.

On this day in 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump from a balloon at a height of 1,000m above Paris.

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