Weatherday: Petrol queues

Former Co Galway fire engine in Riverside Museum, Glasgow (2014).

A cloudy day. There might be some patchy drizzle, and maybe  brighter weather in the afternoon.

Temperature up to 16deg in light to moderate southerly breeze.

On this day in 1973, the ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, cutting exports and embargoing sales to 'unfriendly states'.

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