Weatherday: Tragic trust in a cult

Supermoon over Kilcullen (2020).

It's going to be another good one all day with clear skies and sun. 

Temperature 15deg in light breezes from the east and it will be warmer in those sheltered sunny corners. 

On this day in 1997, police in America discovered the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult, who had committed suicide in the belief that a spaceship was arriving to take them to a better place.

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