Weatherday: One ring to rule them all

View of Athens from the Acropolis (2004).

A bright and breezy morning mostly with sunny spells and scattered showers. Otherwise dry through the afternoon until rain moves in this early evening.

Highest temperature 8deg in fresh southerly breezes which will shift northerly tonight, bringing colder weather.

On this day in 1892, JRR Tolkien was born in South Africa; he was to become the best selling author of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

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