Weatherday: Fiery end to the beginning

Kilcullen bridge (2014).

Any frost will clear and it will be a mostly sunny day.

Highest temperature 4deg in moderate breezes from the north-west which will ease to light. Another below-zero night coming.

On this day in 1958, Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, burned up as it fell from orbit. Launched by Russia in 1957, it had marked the beginning of the space age.

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