Weatherday: Long haul

Red primrose smiling at spring (2022).

A mostly dry day with long spells of spring sunshine.

Highest temperature 9deg in light breezes from the north-west.

On this day in 2005, the first solo nonstop circumnavigation of the earth without refuelling was completed by American Steve Fossett, after more than 67 hours in flight.

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