Weatherday: An explorer's passing

Pre-storm sea in Denia, Spain (2019).

Frost clearing to a sunny dry day.

Highest temperature 3deg in very light breeze from west veering to the southeast tonight and becoming fresh. Another cold night.

On this day in 1922, Kildare native and polar explorer Ernest Shackleton died while his ship was moored at South Georgia.

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