Weatherday: Crossing the Rubicon

Sanctuario de la Virgen de la Peña, Mijas, Spain (2003).

A cloudy start will clear to a mostly sunny day.

Temperature up to 8deg in light breezes from the south.

On this day in 49BC, Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy, plunging Rome into civil war from which he emerged victorious and dictator for life.

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