Weatherday: Birth of a visionary

Salmon river in Iceland (2005).

Some rain, sleet and snow may fall this morning and there's a chance of isolated thunderstorms and hail. Showers will die out during the afternoon, however rain and milder conditions will push in during the evening.

Raw for much of the day with highest temperatures 3deg in moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds.

On this day in 1844, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France. As a teenager she had a series of visions of the Virgin Mary, to whom her home town later became a shrine.

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