Weatherday: Even murderous dictators aren't immortal

On the edge of the flood (2022).

A crisp frosty start to a sunny day, with a little cloud in the early afternoon quickly passing through.

Highest temperature 7deg in light to moderate north-easterly breezes. Another cold night coming.

Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union for more than two decades and one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, died on this day in 1953.

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