Weatherday: Slick of horror

Riverboat at evening in Bangkok, Thailand (2006).

The cloudy start will give way quickly to a sunny afternoon.

Temperatures up to 9deg in light westerly winds.

On this day in 1978, the Amoco Cadiz tanker ran aground in Brittany, France, releasing 69 million gallons of crude oil in what was to then the world's largest oil spill.

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